Poverty Quotes - Page 32

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics in terms of the importance of educating girls as a way of lifting whole societies out of poverty.

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.

We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.