Poverty Quotes - Page 8

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

There is no virtue in poverty.

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Who, being loved, is poor?

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

There's no nobility in poverty.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

It is a sin to be poor.

And when you're poor, you grow up fast.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.