Quotes About Poverty

a man who has a head and hands is seldom left long in a state of destitution.

What needs explanation is not poverty, which is the natural state of mankind, but wealth.

We demand from the law the right to relief, which is the poor man's plunder. To obtain this right, we also should be voters and legislators in order that we may organize Beggary on a grand scale for our own class, as you have organized Protection on a grand scale for your class.

Governments assuming gigantic proportions end by absorbing half of all the revenues. The people are astonished that while marvelous labor-saving inventions, destined to infinitely multiply productions, are ever increasing in number, they are obliged to toil on as painfully as ever, and remain as poor as before.

Cunoa?te?i diferen?a dintre boga?i ?i s?raci? S?racii vând droguri pentru ca s?-?i cumpere Nike, iar boga?ii vând Nike pentru ca s?-?i cumpere droguri.

Sabéis cuál es la diferencia entre los ricos y los pobres? Los pobres venden droga para comprarse unas Nike mientras que los ricos venden Nikes para comprar droga.

Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.

The Devil has no better friend than an empty belly.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and supplies the hammer to knock away their chains. It shows them their nakedness and provides them the garments of purity. It shows them their poverty and pours into their lives the wealth of heaven. It shows them their sins and points them to the Savior.

Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls.

Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.

All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure.

I have often said that loneliness is the predominant attitude in our culture. A person can be lonely in the midst of a party; he can be lonely in a crowd. Loneliness may be experienced by the rich and famous or the poor and unknown.

How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?

In 2004, Americans spent about $46 billion to lose weight and $22 billion on cosmetics. Those expenditures alone would make the difference between life and death for the people of the world who are dying of starvation

I believe one reason that God allows poverty and suffering is so that His followers may demonstrate Christ's love, mercy, and comfort to [others].

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Maybe it's because growing up in Indiana we didn't have very much, so I never got used to counting on having things. I guess we were poor, but we didn't know that. We were just like all our other neighbors in West Baden and French Lick--just trying to get by.

Most of this tragic waste of life is due to malnutrition. But often the malnutrition is due not so much to actual lack of food as to ignorance, a vicious circle in which poverty creates ignorance which then creates more poverty.

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

I was a poor kid. My mom saved money by shopping at the Army-Navy Surplus store, but I felt stupid going to kindergarten dressed as a Chinese General.

A hungry mob is an angry mob.

He is everything, and as we are joined to Him the poverty of our personal identity is lost in the fullness of His eternal greatness.