Poverty Quotes - Page 41

I think everyone understands when these cycles are disrupted, especially in terms of institutionalized poverty, it's always will be difficult - patterns are put into place, and certain behaviors keep getting repeated.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

We have never seen the isolation of the rich to the degree that we see it now. They're global. They travel all over the world. They're not in any way - it seems to me - committed to any one place. So it's easy for them to say, "We don't see this. We don't see poverty. We don't think it's that bad. We think wealth is really being distributed in ways that are fair."

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.