Top 1200 Reducing Poverty Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

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

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a boom in natural gas. It's displacing coal. It emits less carbon dioxide when you burn it. This is not really an Obama policy. It's just something that happened because of technology and the free market.

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty.

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

I broke the cycle of poverty thanks to education.

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

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

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

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

We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population. Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it's not one thing that we need to focus on. It's everything all at once.

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

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

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty

Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these objects, even for short periods of time, might do just the opposite, reducing our assertiveness and undermining our productivity.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

Asia can learn much from Europe. Trade could be made easier in Asia, and the conditions for doing business could be improved by reducing red tape. In this regard, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea have done better than the best in Europe.

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

Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.

Every literate woman is a victory over poverty

Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

None of us are as insulated from poverty as we think.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.

Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.

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

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

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

I want to model generosity and touch poverty.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.