Top 1200 Hunger And Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

As a fan of the books, I feel fortunate to be part of 'The Hunger Games' family. It was an amazing experience; I am proud of the film and my performance. I want to thank all of my fans and the entire 'Hunger Games' community for their support and loyalty.

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

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

You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.

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.

In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.

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

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

we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information, poverty-stricken households will never catch up to households above the poverty line - throwing the African-American community deeper into the stone ages.

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

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!

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

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

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 war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

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.

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.

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

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

God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.

Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.

Delaying a meal brings about symptoms most people call "hunger." These symptoms include abdominal cramping, weakness, and feeling ill-the same as during drug withdrawal. This is not hunger. Our dietary habits, especially eating animal-protein-rich foods three times a day, are so stressful to the detoxification system in our liver and kidneys that we start to get withdrawal, or detoxification, symptoms the minute we aren't busy processing such food. Real hunger is not that uncomfortable.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa’s renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life?

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.

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

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

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

Poverty should be one of the top concerns for any elected leader. It has a negative effect on almost everything we as society entrust our government to do, but it seems that those in the Republican Party find it is more politically viable to fight a war on the people in poverty than it is to fight a war to end poverty in this country.

Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.

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

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

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.

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.

Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and proper nutrition are available for expectant mothers in need is a critical part of ending childhood hunger.

Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.

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

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

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

A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.

Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.

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.

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

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.