Top 1200 Global Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole and what is good and desirable for an individual. That conflict can be found in global problems such as climate change, pollution, resource depletion, poverty, hunger, and overpopulation.

Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, extreme poverty, economic disparities, social injustice, war, and terrorism - these are the projection of a collective consciousness that's in disarray.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.

The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact.

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

By repealing the Child Poverty Act, which forced governments to take real action to tackle child poverty, this government brings a proud chapter of British history to an undignified end. In future the government will measure child poverty not by looking at whether they have any money, but by looking at their so-called 'life chances.'

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts serving poor children to compensate for issues related to poverty. Since the enactment of NCLB, the focus on mitigating poverty has been replaced by a focus on accountability as measured by test scores.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

Destroying the nation state are mainly three things: the global economy, global communication technology and global culture. And this is where we are lost in the process. What could be something that can provide us a transversal political sense of belonging? At the end of the day, without an alternative we end up with populism in the name of very narrow identities.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.

Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been no global warming since you entered first grade. There has been no global warming this century. None

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

We measure poverty by what I believe is a very, very crude concept. We actually measure poverty by trying to get some kind of an estimate of the minimum expenditures on food that are required to maintain health, multiplying that number by three, and saying that's the level of poverty. And it's a very crude, inaccurate arrangement.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.