Poverty Quotes - Page 29

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.

The poor are only they who feel poor.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

What we've undergone in recent decades worldwide has been totally insane, and all of this is a result of capitalism. The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. Mechanisms of exploitation were imposed, such as outsourcing, labor mediation, and the like.The results are plain to see: greater inequality in Latin America; unemployment is higher than in previous decades; we haven't resolved the problem of poverty; we've lost a great deal of sovereignty.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.

The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

True poverty does not come from God.