Quotes About Poverty

Wisdom in poverty is better than folly in affluence.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPoverty: The result of marriage.

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.

It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship.

If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide adequate healthcare to those that can. Poverty will lead to more migrants seeking to move, whether legally or not, to rich nations.

What this man did, Fidel Castro, is he oppressed his people for nearly six decades. That legacy is firing squads. It's poverty. It's denying human rights.

Life is difficult in Africa, even getting three square meals.

Flats are being sold for 1 lakh per square feet even though the poor can't even afford one meal in the day. It's an inhuman and insulting display of wealth, and I wanted my movie's title, 'City of Gold,' as well as the title song to reflect that.

There are more and more products with fewer people able to consume them. We have to help those who don't have the economic stability to grow, or one day there will be very few who are able to buy what we're selling.

If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.

Middle-income countries need to attend to the education of their poorest people to build their economies and ensure long-term stability.

But I think most importantly, we need to realize that not everyone is privileged or born into a good life, stable homes or a home, period.

So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.

My primary goal is to eradicate poverty; I believe it is immoral and a stain on our society. And so when I despair or get angry, I take the time to think about how I can best achieve that goal - and then I get to work.

Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.

It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.