Quotes About Poverty

Sociologists have studied these questions as well. It turns out that there is a fundamental flaw in the data used to support the claim that we suffer from time poverty and overwork: we lie.

She glanced at her brothers, at her mother, still in her bathrobe on their tree lawn, and thought, They have literally nothing but the clothes on their backs.

??in en korkunç yan?, çocuklar?n neden aç kald?klar?n?, niçin yiyecek bulamad?klar?n? anlayamamas?.

La mort d'un pauvre et le crime d'un riche ne font pas de bruit

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

Our lives are reduced to a tight circle. Each day revolves around what we can find to eat for the following day. And until it comes, we think about food. All day. All night. Hunger owns us.

Let not poor Nelly starve.

Only poor people go to jail.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Ask yourself: "How is it in heaven? Is there sickness, disease, poverty?" No. Then you have authority to bind it here on earth.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery

If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God.