Quotes About Poverty

Hunger isn't about the amount of food around—it's about being able to afford and control that food. After all, the U.S. has more food than it knows what to do with, and still 50 million people are food insecure.

Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be "attracted.

The mind has a definite way of clothing one's thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents. Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty. Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence. Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one's thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature.

your poverty is serving no one. If you're a charitable person, you'd be a whole lot more charitable if you had lots of money.

The fear of POVERTY The fear of CRITICISM The fear of ILL HEALTH at the bottom of most of one's worries The fear of LOSS OF LOVE OF SOMEONE The fear of OLD AGE The fear of DEATH

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

Nature has so built man that he has ABSOLUTE CONTROL over the material which reaches his subconscious mind, through his five senses, although this is not meant to be construed as a statement that man always EXERCISES this control. In the great majority of instances, he does NOT exercise it, which explains why so many people go through life in poverty.

this power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy. The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot; shows that you lack that faith which is the ground of all effort and progress.

excepto las que reconocemos. Tanto la pobreza como la riqueza se derivan del pensamiento.

Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothing else! But it is sufficient to destroy one's chances of achievement in any undertaking, a truth which became painfully evident during the depression.

Poverty is love for the poor Jesus, and voluntary self-denial. Jesus could have been rich. He did not have to live the kind of life he lived. No, he wanted to be poor in order to share the restrictions of real poverty, to put up with the lack of comfort, to suffer in his body the hard reality which weighs down the man searching for bread, to experience the abiding instability of one who possesses nothing.

Al fin y al cabo, ¿qué clase de ciencia es ésa, capaz de poner un hombre en la luna pero incapaz de poner un pedazo de pan en la mesa de cada ser humano?

what sort of technology is this that can send a man to the moon but can't put a piece of bread on every human being's table?" "Perhaps the problem doesn't lie in the technology, but in those who decide how to make use of it," I suggested.

Del resto, che razza di scienza è quella che porta un uomo sulla Luna, ma non è in grado di garantire un pezzo di pane a tutti gli essere umani?

El modo más eficaz de hacer inofensivos a los pobres es enseñarles a querer imitar a los ricos.

That world seemed to have vanished, but for a long time the image I had of my father, which I still preserve today, was that of a thin man wearing an old suit that was too large for him and a secondhand hat he had bought on Calle Condal for seven pesetas, a man who could not afford to buy his son a wretched pen that was useless but seemed to mean everything to him.

I stopped asking my father to take me to see Victor Hugo's pen, and he didn't mention it again. That world seemed to have vanished, but for a long time the image I had of my father, which I still preserve today, was that of a thin man wearing an old suit that was too large for him and a secondhand hat he had bought on Calle Condal for seven pesetas, a man who could not afford to buy his son a wretched pen that was useless but seemed to mean everything to him.

Kakva je to znanost koja može ?ovjeka poslati na Mjesec, a ne može staviti komad kruha na stol svakog ?ovjeka?

París es la única ciudad del mundo donde morirse de hambre todavía es considerado un arte.

Habrá advertido que no tenemos electricidad, Óscar. Lo cierto es que no creemos demasiado en los adelantos de la ciencia moderna. Al fin y al cabo, ¿qué clase de ciencia es esa, capaz de poner un hombre en la Luna pero incapaz de poner un pedazo de pan en la mesa de cada ser humano? —A lo mejor el problema no está en la ciencia, sino en quiénes deciden cómo emplearla —sugerí.

The echo of voices and old radios rose through these canyons of poverty, but only as far as the rooftops. The voice of the Raval never reaches heaven.

To je ona stara, reci mi ?ime se razme?eš i re?i ?u ti ?ime oskudijevaš.

el dinero no tiene importancia, a menos que se carezca de él.