Poverty Quotes - Page 27

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.