Poverty Quotes - Page 28

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

I offer you what I have my Poverty

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

It has always been my view that terrorism is not spawned by the poverty of money; it is spawned by the poverty of dignity. Humiliation is the most underestimated force in international relations and in human relations. It is when people or nations are humiliated that they really lash out and engage in extreme violence.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.