Poverty Quotes - Page 42

You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

If the experts are right in their calculations, then we face the prospect of millions of people retiring into poverty from the American middle class in the years ahead. That has all kinds of social and economic consequences. We need to anticipate those and start tackling the problem in a constructive way.

If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]

God oft hath a great share in a little house.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear.

Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.