Poverty Quotes - Page 30

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

And plenty makes us poor.

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.