Poverty Quotes - page 3

I argued more recently for a hypothecated wealth tax on very high earners to support the campaign against child poverty. Why shouldn't the super-rich be obliged to help the super-poor? (Anthony Giddens)
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture-in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves. View quote
Jerry Garcia
Money can't buy poverty. View quote
Marty Feldman
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. View quote
James A. Garfield
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. View quote
Muhammad Ali
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. View quote
Evita Peron
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. View quote
Swami Sivananda
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. View quote
George Farquhar
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. (Antonio Porchia)
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
The safest wealth is the poverty of needs. View quote
Franz Werfel
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Poverty is the step-mother of genius. View quote
Josh Billings
For avarice begins where poverty ends. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
I have no doubt that the elimination of poverty and deprivation is possible by 2020. View quote
C.K. Prahalad
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. View quote
Stuart Wilde
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. View quote
Bill Cosby
Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine. View quote
Adam Schiff
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. (Barbara Mikulski)
Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime. View quote
Charles Bass
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. View quote
Harri Holkeri
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine. View quote
Immanuel Velikovsky
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. View quote
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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