Poverty Quotes - Page 39

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

Patches are a nun's jewels.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.

The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

Poverty is the lack of light.

That which is inherently nonfinanceable is financed. That which is inherently financeable is not financed. And the illogic of poverty amidst eagerness and ability to produce plenty goes on.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

There is no peace in poverty

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time shouldn't live in poverty. And studies over the last 20 years in states where we have seen these minimum wage increases show there's no discernible impact on employment growth. In fact, what it does is line low-wage workers' pockets with higher wages.

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.

Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.