Top 1200 Reducing Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The only real cure for poverty is production.

I've always found poverty a source of strength.

My main aim is poverty reduction in the state.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command.

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

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

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

Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.

We came from nothing, from the raw poverty of Trenchtown.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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

When I see poverty around, it churns my heart.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.

As New York's United States Senator, I promise to reinstate the Moynihan 'Fisc Report' and work every day to address the imbalance of payments, first by focusing on reducing the amount of taxes we send to Washington, and second, by ensuring that funding formulas don't disadvantage New York.

Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.

For animals, for humans, for the planet: It makes sense to curb meat consumption, and that is something vegans and omnivores agree on. Roughly two-thirds of Americans report reducing their meat consumption, and many are sensitive to the way their diet might be damaging the planet.

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

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Poverty makes you work really hard.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

It's not racist to say we can't take in the poverty of the world.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

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

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

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

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

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

Oh, poverty parts good company.

True poverty does not come from God.

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce.

When I was a kid and we played baseball we used to use that "eye black" stuff sometimes - that kind of grease you put under your eyes to reduce glare or something. We only used it, of course, to look cool; it's not like we were any better prepubescent athletes for reducing glare.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

Only a state with resources can deplete poverty.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

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

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

I think wherever we can cooperate with Russia, that's fine. And I did as secretary of state. That's how we got a treaty reducing nuclear weapons. It's how we got the sanctions on Iran that put a lid on the Iranian nuclear program without firing a single shot.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.