Top 1200 Global Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

I don't want to overvalue Donald Trump as some historical rupture, and to admit that I do think Trump is an indication of a fairly profound change. But the change started a while ago, and it has taken a while to appear. Global capital, particularly western capital, has been in decline since the late 60s and early 70s. The softness appeared in the 60s, the profit rate fell off the table in 1972 - 73, and there have been very uneven recoveries. This has been an ongoing weakening of the productive economy of accumulation at a global scale, of capital's capacity to expand.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and for American feminism, it not so surprisingly continues to center Western feminism and American feminism. And I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

Actually, the phrase "national security" is barely used until the 1930s. And there's a reason. By then, the United States was beginning to become global. Before that the United States had been mostly a regional power - Britain was the biggest global power. After the Second World War, national security is everywhere, because we basically owned the world, so our security is threatened everywhere. Not just on our borders, but everywhere - so you have to have a thousand military bases around the world for "defense."

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

One of the central challenges for global conversation today is to find ways of getting to understand very different views about gender and sexuality. But we should start by recognizing that these issues are subjct to disputation within every society as well as across societies. We need a global conversation that recognizes that we have these very different views. Next, try to agree on fundamental rights: things we think every person is entitled to. Finally, if we're convinced that what a government or a society elsewhere is doing to some people is badly wrong and the conversation gets nowhere.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Oh, poverty parts good company.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

I broke the cycle of poverty thanks to education.

When I see poverty around, it churns my heart.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

Only a state with resources can deplete poverty.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

There is no silver bullet for poverty alleviation.

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

I've always found poverty a source of strength.

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.

I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.