Top 1200 Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called Third World.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

My government is giving residential, health facilities to poor as poverty can be removed only by empowering them.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs. Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.