Poverty Quotes - Page 40

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

People in the individual marketplace should have more options. The plan that we - the discussion draft that we have out, actually opens up for people who are zero percent to 100 percent of the federal poverty level, not eligible for Medicaid, would open up the opportunity for them to purchase insurance with help from the federal government.

The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate much needed resources for health, education and poverty reduction for some of the world's poorest people.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live in poverty, they have a certain sense of hope they can get out of it. If there are no jobs, there's no hope. And bad things come from that.

Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.

Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many millions of people endure terrible economic and social deprivation, despite the incredible wealth all around them.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They're not going to live in poverty.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.