Poverty Quotes - Page 6

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable.

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. The use of money and the creation of debt fosters economic insecurity, which perpetuates crime, lawlessness and resentment. Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity and insecurity, and nationalism tends only to propagate the separation of nations and the world's people.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

Poverty is just a state of mind.

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human misery. We have the power to make the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

Money can't buy poverty.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.