Quotes About Poverty

Privatization of PSU entity is a curse to humanity as it eventually leads to the unbridled growth of unrest, unemployment rate, inflation and social evils like poverty & depravity in the society.

Seeing the economic poverty, it feels a pain in the heart; but after watching the monetary mentality of the majority of the poor mass like that of rich class, the whole energy does drain out of the body.

The country is not poor, but the mentality of the chief authority towards the majority of the people is only poor and that's the reason for seeing the poverty in our society.

The quantity of stupidity is oft less in those living in poverty and more in ones belonging to the rich community, but the number of empty mind people is usually most in the lower to middle economic class society

There are better lessons of life to be learnt in riches-to-rags story than in rags-to-riches glory.

I saw that "success," "failure," "poverty", "riches," were price tags, money values of the market place which had mesmerized and sidetracked me for years.

A poor man is a living dead one.

Come away; poverty's catching.

Poverty without debt is independence.

Riches disclose in a man?s character the bad qualities formerly concealed in his poverty.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

And just as sincerely, this is a book for open-minded liberals who understand that our country would benefit from new passion and new ideas in the fight against poverty.

it was the worldwide spread of American-style free enterprise that saved billions from poverty by giving them their first opportunity to rise in history. Truly, this is America's gift to the world. Conservatives can and must champion this truth without apology or compromise. For the sake of all people, our end goal must be to make free enterprise as universally accepted and nonpartisan as civil rights are today.

He possessed an unflinching belief that all people — the poor, children, the elderly — were human assets, waiting to be developed so they could earn their success.

As a child I qualified for free school meals, so I know I would have been in one of the families that needed help to gain access to a laptop.

Most people don't see themselves as sitting on that bottom rung as a defense mechanism. The more they blame poor people for their poverty, the further they feel from being in the same place. Even the working poor who qualify for food, childcare and housing benefits don't see themselves as such.

I think there's a huge gap between no longer qualifying for benefits and being able to afford a life without benefits. When I went off government assistance - six months before I got the book deal - there were some months that were lean, I mean literally lean, like I lost a lot of weight. I could barely afford food.

Republicans need to define and present specific policies on how to eradicate poverty, help every child achieve a quality education, and lower the cost of increasing health premiums.

I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.