Poverty Quotes

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

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

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.