Poverty Quotes - Page 9

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.

The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

The economic egalitarianism of the liberal ideology implies ... the reduction of Westerners to hunger and poverty.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

a call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.