Quotes About Poverty

Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for everyone to pursue private luxury.

No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself.

My anger pushed me. I hated poverty so much that I wanted to become rich.

When I was born my parents lived in a flat so small that it now legally can't be rented out as a dwelling.

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

The U.N. has been focusing on the global goals in terms of trying to fight and eradicate poverty, and I feel like education is at the root of it all.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

I think poor folks are the only people who cannot afford - financially and otherwise - to be sick.

I can't eradicate poverty, but at least for the people around me, I can help make sure no child is denied a dream.

The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open her own front door.

When you're someone who's lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.

Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

The General's preoccupation with electronic gadgetry irked Randall. The world had become a wondrous fabric of instant communication, linking millions of people in the same old abundance of problems and poverty of solutions.

En mi experiencia, estas guerras en paises del tercer mundo no se ganan con balas sino con enfermedades, y no hablo de armas biológicas sino de desidia, de brutalidad, de olvido y de marginalidad" ? Florencia Bonelli, Caballo de Fuego: Congo

En mi experiencia, estas guerras en pises del tercer mundo no se ganan con balas sino con enfermedades, y no hablo de armas biológicas sino de desidia, de brutalidad, de olvido y de marginalidad

The functional defect of socialism is that it is not social. It has not helped the poor man by eradicating the prince; it has only made the prince poor. If it has not put a chicken in every pot, it has removed the peacock from every lawn. It has made liberality a casualty of an artifact called liberalism. Such may satisfy the motive of envy; it is irrelevant to the motive of charity, and in the collectivist bosom it engenders the very greed it scorned.

worst village in that part of the country. Mr. Mordaunt had told her a great many of his difficulties and discouragements, and she had found out a great deal by herself. The agents who had managed the property had always been chosen to please the Earl, and had cared nothing for the degradation and wretchedness of the poor tenants. Many things, therefore, had been neglected which should have been