Quotes About Poverty

Bono, the lead singer of U2, said: "The idea that there's a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with…. But the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in…straw and poverty is genius, and brings me to my knees, literally…. I am just in awe of that…. It's the thing that makes me a believer.

Consider what it might look like if we were without this divine grace in the Western world. We would probably become like many third world countries held hostage in poverty and hunger. Perhaps it would take time for our economic structures to collapse, but it would become obvious to everyone that we had been divinely blessed and that this blessing was no longer available. This is why it is so important for us—especially individuals in the secular arena—to humble ourselves.

The extra money we get from Martinez goes straight to the neediest members of our parish. Innocent people will be hurt. They use the money to buy food. This is about people who can't fend for themselves.

Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

India has to fight poverty, Pakistan too has to fight poverty, why don't we come together to fight poverty?

A commune is where people join together to share their lack of wealth.

The new fashions sold in department stores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They'd been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittance in terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industry that exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly. And if that wasn't enough to keep me out of stores, there was this as well: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda— the advertising industry.

Your Holiness, we are more than prepared to concede that overpopulation alone is not the sole cause of poverty and misery," Giuliani began. "Fatuous oligarchies," Gelasius suggested. "Ethnic paranoia. Whimsical economic systems. An enduring habit of treating women like dogs Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Her hair was the brightest living gold, and despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head. Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness, that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features.

In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with pleasure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground.

Cuando mueran las pasiones del hombre, la pobreza desaparecerá. Cuando el odio no se iguale al amor, existirá la fraternidad entre los hombres.

My proud step was no interpreter of my heart, for I deeply felt that, though surrounded by every luxury, I was a beggar.

A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree.