Quotes About Poverty

He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!

I NEVER lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod; Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God! Angels, twice descending, Reimbursed my store. Burglar, banker, father, I am poor once more!

XXI. A BOOK. He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!

Half the country wouldn't have died if the landlords hadn't kept shipping away the corn, seizing cattle, rack-renting, evicting, torching cabins…Or if the government at Westminster hadn't thought it the most prudent course of action to sit on their arses and let the Irish starve.

Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor?

America is particularly boastful of her great power, her enormous national wealth. Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soilless army of human prey.

Discipline and restraint — are they not back of all the evils in the world? Slavery, submission, poverty, all misery, all social iniquities result from discipline and restraint.

But first consider how much more sparing and patient of hardship the poor are than we.

It is better to die poor, while free from fear and grief, than to live surrounded by riches and filled with anxiety.

It is no light thing, said he, to endure poverty uncomplainingly; and a difficult thing to bear wealth without becoming arrogant.

new poor coming from a ruined middle class formed the chief support of the Nazi and Fascist revolutions.

No doubt the British saw themselves fighting for liberty against tyranny; but in 1815 most Englishmen were probably poorer and worse off than they had been in 1800, while most Frenchmen were almost certainly better off; nor had any except the still negligible wage-labourers lost the substantial economic benefits of the Revolution

Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men.

Public lotteries are essentially regressive taxes imposed on the poor.

Si tu vois ni ordures ni poubelles, c'est très riche.Si tu vois des poubelles e pas d'ordures,c'est riche.Si tu vois des ordures à côté des poubelles,c'est ni riche,ni pauvre,c'est touristique.Si tu vois les ordures sans les poubelles,c'est pauvre. Et si les gens habitent dans les ordures c'est très très pauvre.Ici c'est riche!...Mais oui,c'est la Suisse!

Pourquoi est-ce que tu ne souris jamais, Momo ? me demanda Monsieur Ibrahim. Ça, c'était un vrai coup de poing cette question, un coup de vache, je n'étais pas préparé. - Sourire, c'est un truc de riche, monsieur Ibrahim. J'ai pas les moyens.

I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.

So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 per cent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the relatively better off is minimally 2.63 per cent, more than twice what is allocated to feed the poor and provide employment to the unemployed.

It is the interactive presence of these two features of deprivation – being low class and being female – that can massively impoverish women from the less privileged classes.

It is, however, important to avoid the much-aired simplification that argues that all India needs to do to achieve fast economic growth and speedy reduction of poverty is greater reliance on the global market and on international trade.

Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.

Better is poverty in the hand of the god,Than wealth in the storehouse;Better is bread with a happy heartThan wealth with vexation.

Poverty is not a respecter of man.