Top 1200 Cycle Of Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I think, the young people in the U.K., it's a vicious cycle of not feeling empowered to do anything within their community.

We have to break the cycle of structural racism, and build a truly just society for all of us.

Sunday is the only day where I can kind of do my own thing and not have it dictated by the news cycle.

When we talk about gender pay gaps in the United States, and if you look at women without children, they earn 96 cents for every dollar that a man is earning, while for mothers it is about 76 cents. That's nearly 25 percent less. For single mothers, the situation is even worse. One third of them are living in poverty or just on the edge of poverty. This is an unacceptable situation.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.

[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.

Welfare reform was a good-faith effort to break the cycle of intergenerational dependence.

Most VC firms are looking to bring in women because of the great consumer cycle.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Marco [Rubio] now is attached to that establishment. I don't see his future, not in this particular cycle.

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.

I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value.

It's called the Santa Claus effect; the holiday period is traditionally a strong cycle.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

I like physical exercise. I cycle, run, and play tennis and football with my son.

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.

In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.

Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK.

For my whole career, I concentrated on that cycle of games from August to May and being mentally and physically ready.

Food became my coping mechanism and I've never been able to break that cycle.

The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. It has grown with civilization, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation.

No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

By cutting off Hezbollah's lifelines to international financing, we can break its cycle of violence around the world.

The lunar cycle within the solar season: that kind of syncopated rhythm is what life relates to.

Sometimes people stay in the same cycle their entire life, but you can still mature within it.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

I cycle whenever possible around London. But I travel first class when I need to fly.

I feel very fragile cycling in London, whereas in Berlin there are proper cycle paths everywhere.

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

I cycle like a fiend, but I can't even sit through the highlights of the Tour de France.

The best way to perpetuate poverty is spending on arms, and poverty itself is a form of violence. The wealthy industrialized countries have been too slow to recognize this. I hope that in this new century and new millennium, the world will learn that if you want peace, you must prepare for peace, plan for peace, work for it, and comply with its dictates. Lasting peace will never be achieved with the instruments of war.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

Businesses grow and they don't change enough and they decline over time. Retailers do that on a bit of a faster cycle.

We have to stop the cycle of violence affecting so many of our communities. We have to love each other.

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment.

When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.

Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil fuel when you factor in life-cycle costs.

I would argue [Donald]Trump is the [Barack] Obama of this election cycle.

It's such a cycle. You'll see a rapper drop a song, and next thing you know, he's gone.

The 24-hour news cycle is kind of insatiable. Players in the '80s and '90s didn't have to deal with that scrutiny.

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who do not know how to read and to those who do not have the time to read....I will go find them in their workshops; in their garrets and even, if needed, in their taverns, and there, face to face with their poverty, I will compel them, in spite of themselves, to escape from this frightful poverty which is degrading and killing them.