Quotes about poverty
poverty vices inconvenience
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience. John Florio
poverty bottom extremes
Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom. Joseph Stiglitz
poverty inquiring unemployment
Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
poverty poor plenty
And plenty makes us poor. John Dryden
poverty common poor
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. John Kenneth Galbraith
poverty emphasis standards
I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.
poverty united-states annoying
Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.
poverty kind shame
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. Livy
poverty parsimony ashamed
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
poverty bars offers
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. Lyndon B. Johnson
poverty finals conquest
The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.
poverty firsts conquer
For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.
poverty disaster social
There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster. Malcolm Fraser
poverty isolation deprivation
Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation. Malcolm Gladwell
poverty violence
Poverty is the greatest violence. Mahatma Gandhi
poverty absurd absurdity
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. Frank McCourt
poverty virtue
There is no virtue in poverty. Joseph Murphy
poverty poor knows
He who knows how to be poor knows everything. Jules Michelet
poverty kind pity
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity. Josh Billings
poverty should humiliation
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. Mathieu Kerekou
poverty fatality
I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.
poverty nowhere-to-go nowhere-to-go-but-up
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. Kirk Douglas
poverty rich poor
Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them. Josh Bernstein
poverty honest never-forget
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
poverty circumstances
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. Pam Grier
poverty poor manners
You lose your manners when you're poor. Lillian Hellman
poverty rich knows
The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
poverty poor feels
Few save the poor feel for the poor.
poverty unnecessary finance
Poverty is unnecessary. Muhammad Yunus
poverty resources nothing-new
There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it. Martin Luther King, Jr.
poverty income prove
I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
poverty dread
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty. Publilius Syrus
poverty entrepreneurship poor
Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship. Pierre Omidyar