Poverty Quotes - Page 7

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

Poverty is unnecessary.

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions

Poverty does not create our social problems...our social problems create our poverty.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.