Quotes About Poverty

As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

The water supply was poor and food scarce unless you could afford exorbitant prices.

We were poor. We were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Las masas de población menos favorecidas, que se sienten abandonadas, son atraídas por corrientes nacionalistas que se oponen a la entrada de emigrantes procedentes de zonas más pobres.

Es posible que ello ocurra, pues es evidente que la corrupción también está en las propias filas de Morena, que la amnistía pensada para abatir la violencia es un espejismo, que la pobreza no se liquida si no hay desarrollo económico

Aconsejar a los pobres que bajen de peso, se alimenten bien y hagan ejercicio resulta casi un insulto.

comprobamos que el desarrollo capitalista no conlleva necesariamente -como se creía y como todavía algunos creen- un empobrecimiento material de la población, pero en cambio sí abre nuevos espacios que contribuyen al empobrecimiento cultural y espiritual de la sociedad.

En el mundo globalizado en el que vivimos, la peor dependencia no es la que se basa en la compra de bienes extranjeros, sino la pobreza aunada a la falta de educación de gran parte de la población y la precariedad de las empresas nacionales.

When the Spaniard Pero Tafur visited, he found even the emperor's palace "in such a state that both it and the city show well the evils which the people have suffered and still endure … the city is sparsely populated … the inhabitants are not well clad, but sad and poor, showing the hardship of their lot," before adding with true Christian charity, "which is, however, not as bad as they deserve, for they are a vicious people, steeped in sin.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

When Christophe at last made up his mind to go to bed, chilled in body and soul, he heard the window below him shut. And, as he lay, he thought sadly that it is cruel for the poor to dwell on the past, for they have no right to have a past, like the rich: they have no home, no corner of the earth wherein to house their memories: their joys, their sorrows, all their days, are scattered in the wind.

I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn't care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

In my errant life I roamed to learn the secrets of women and men, of gods and dreams. I lived in wealth and poverty, in fame and calamity. I saw every country of our world, I lived a thousand lives. Many lives I spent, other lives I squandered, for in my life I never traveled, all I did was wander.

From flophouse bed To poorhouse bread, all outhouse sorrow: I thee wed.

Abundance, like want, ruins many.

Expanding urbanization often trapped people at the margins of settlements into becoming landless and unable to use their skills and thus gradually forced them into performing lowly tasks.

I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.

Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.

Equal justice is forgotten in our current judicial system. Wealth, power, and prestige protect the ruling class. The counterfeiters, the warmongers, and the thieves who steal from the treasury go free. Our prisons are filled will nonviolent drug users and disproportionately by minorities and the poor.

The proposition was and is that people are better able to manage their lives than government can manage them. Under conditions of liberty, the result is prosperity and orderly civilization. Under government control, the result is relative poverty and unpredictable chaos. The proof is in the news every day.

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

The libertarian view that the state has no responsibility to care for and empower the poor flies in the face of clear biblical teaching.