Quotes About Poverty

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

Hunger makes thief of any man.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.

We must have this rule, for there are those whose hearts are so hard that they will come and buy this rice that is given for the poor--for a penny will not feed any man like this--and they will carry the rice home to feed to their pigs for slop. And the rice is for men and not for pigs (Buck, 105).

He lived in the rich city as alien as a rat in a rich man's house that is fed on scraps thrown away, and hides here and there and is never a part of the real life of the house.

if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.

Crime begins in poverty; poverty in insufficiency of food; insufficiency in neglect of tilling of the soil. Without such tilling, man has no tie to bind him to the soil. Without such a tie he readily leaves his birthplace and his home. Then he is like the birds of the air or the beasts of the field. Neither battlemented cities nor deep moats, nor harsh laws, nor cruel punishments, can subdue this roving spirit that is strong within him.

Day by day beneath the opulence of this city Wang Lung lived in the foundations of poverty upon which it was laid.

He had collected from every place where he had hid his little stores of gain and he had borrowed all he could, and he could not even have had this except by bitter, frugal living.

En fin, en este país se hace cada día más difícil sobrevivir al modelito. La globa la lleva, los pobres arrastran la bolsa del pan sin pan.

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what's going on, but that there's something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

Only the poor can create art.

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

in a country in which almost three hundred million people live on the equivalent of $1.25 a day, poverty and economic growth cannot be separated from energy. The energy issues India faces reflect, in a giant-sized way, those of many developing countries.

los líderes de los países pobres son ignorantes. La consecuencia es que las políticas no se adoptan ni se implantan, o se implantan solamente de nombre.

tienen el poder toman decisiones que crean pobreza. No lo hacen bien, no porque se equivoquen o por su ignorancia, sino a propósito.