Poverty Quotes - Page 3

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

Every literate woman is a victory over poverty

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Congress Mukt Bharat BJP ka naara nahi hai, jan jan ka sankalp hai. Be it dynasty politics, nepotism, corruption, communalism, divisions in society or poverty, getting freedom from all this is what I mean by a Congress Mukt Bharat.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

As a nation, there are many issues we don`t talk about, we just don`t talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty is one of those issues.

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.