Poverty Quotes - Page 5

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

You will never become rich, until you hate poverty

There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

There is for many a poverty of play.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.