Quotes About Poverty

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

Disempowerment," Michael told me, "is at the heart of poor health"—physical, mental, and emotional.

when they had the financial security that came at the end of the harvest, they were on average thirteen IQ points smarter - an extraordinary gap. Why would that be? Anyone reading this who's ever been financial stressed knows part of the answer instinctively. When you are worried about how to survive financially, everything - from a broken washing machine to a child's lost shoe - becomes a threat to your ability to get through the week. You become more vigilant

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - "voluntarily" sell - himself every day and hour to the "beast of property."

Armut ist ohne Zweifel das Schrecklichste, mir dürft' einer 10 Millionen hinlegen und sagen, ich soll arm sein dafür, ich nehmet's nicht.

A vast dawning entirety lies before the soul, our senses lose themselves in it as do our eyes and oh! we long to make the oblation of all our being and to be filled utterly with the bliss of a single large and glorious feeling.—And oh! when we hurry after it, when There becomes Here, all is as it was and we stand in our poverty, in our narrowness, and the soul in us parches for the elusive freshening.

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

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

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.