Poverty Quotes - Page 31

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

Broke is normal. Why be normal?

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

Come away; poverty's catching.

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.