Poverty Quotes - Page 36

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally experience through the lives of friends, family, neighbors, colleagues. I'd venture to say it's a rare person in 2013 America who knows nobody who lost a job in the recession, or knows nobody whose home went underwater or who went into foreclosure.

The poverty we see in America is now too widespread, and too complex, for easy fixes. But I do think we can reimagine many of our institutions and can create new ones in ways that would be effective. We could, for example, create social insurance systems, similar to social security, such as that we went through in 2008-9. We could create a financial transaction tax, oil profit taxes and a fairer estate tax system, and we could plow much of the revenue raised from these into job training programs, into better education infrastructure, into an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit.

I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.

Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

Our aid is work for the American people.

By doing good, we do well.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.

Poverty is the center of the Gospel.

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

I shall not accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need.

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.