Quotes About Poverty

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

There are more than 300 000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

This is a world where the educated get richer and the uneducated get poorer.

Two, four, six, eight—Welfare rations come too late. Three, five, seven, nine—Medicare is still behind.

Harry M. Caudill

It is unthinkable that a rich and enlightened society should permit its unfortunate members to starve in the midst of plenty; but once the justifications are admitted the difficulties still stand undiminished.

Wir alle sind das, wovon wir uns bewusst sind. Gefängnisinsassen wissen von ihrem Gefängnis. Menschen, die viel Geld auf der Bank haben, aber dessen nicht bewusst sind, sind trotz ihres Reichtums arm. Wir haben nur das, wovon wir bewusst sind. Deshalb beruht unsere Größe oder unsere Kleinheit auf unserem Bewusstsein. Selbst eine erleuchtete Seele zu werden, beruht nur auf einem Unterschied im Bewusstsein. (s. 181)

poverty always breeds violence in one way or another.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.

They were unmasked now, I saw them all for what they were, little sons and daughters of the eternal poor, the Lumpenproletariat, made only for slavery, for continued slavery. They wanted 'liberty' for everyone, in the abstract, but they couldn't give full liberty to anyone to act on his own!

Con el habitual destrozo cataclísmico con que se derrumba el pasado, se abrió paso la idea de que las nuevas guerras iban a encontrarse siempre en países pobres y sus alrededores. Cada vez más temas internacionales tenían como protagonistas a estos países con guerras internas.

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

What's the rent on a studio here?" Duncan asked. "Seventeen hundred a month." Duncan whistled. "That's about as much as my mortgage." "This building is reserved for low-income individuals earning seventy grand a year or less." Eve was stunned. "That's poverty wage in Santa Monica?" "And all of Los Angeles County," Gus said.

This building is reserved for low-income individuals earning seventy grand a year or less." Eve was stunned. "That's poverty wage in Santa Monica?" "And all of Los Angeles County," Gus said. Duncan looked at Eve. "That's insane. Give me one good reason why anybody lives in Southern California?" "In-N-Out Burger.

By virtue of the fact that they expect so much less than poor Americans—they don't care about movies, clothes, and cars—they are more content than the poor people in America.

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.