Quotes About Poverty

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

But just a minute, Mr. Poor Man; consider whether you can, in fact, enter. What if you're poor, and also happen to be greedy? What if you're sunk in destitution, and at the same time on fire with avarice? So if that's what you're like, whoever you are that are poor, it's not because you haven't wanted to be rich, but because you haven't been able to. So God doesn't inspect your means, but he observes your will.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

The dark shadow of crime spreads right and left, from the Penitentiary and the Workhouse, over all the institutions, the Asylum, the Alms-House and Charity Hospital; so that, in the minds of the people at large, all suffer alike from an evil repute." Being poor had become a character trait that needed "correction," like the impulse to steal or cheat. The Christian impulse to help the needy had been tamped down and replaced with an inclination to punish them.

the relation between crime and poverty is no more essential than between crime and wealth." Where were the standing armies of police to monitor the crimes of the elite?

The contrast between the greatness of Greece's ambitions and the poverty of her resources put a special premium on outside support."2

Backed into a corner, the poor can riot, but the rich start war.

Poverty was crushing all the feeling they had. It was intolerable to be together this way, and yet they tolerated it.

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The hoarse church-bells of London ring; The hoarser horns of London croak; The poor brown lives of London cling About the poor brown streets like smoke; The deep air stands above my roof Like water, to the floating stars. My friend and I - we sit aloof - We sit and smile, and bind our scars.

what with the Rastows having a house—all at once my father was agitating for a house of our own. He put it to my mother. "We ain't poor, so why should we live like we are?" My mother sent up a wail. "Leave Miss Brookie?" One thing my mother kept hold of: There was to be

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding for a little time, the splendor of the Sun.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

Whatever the truth is, I don't see how it will help me get food on the table.

It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money.

A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.