Quotes About Poverty

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

Guys die down here on a regular basis-that's the reality. They die here for a nickel. They are killed for a piece of change or because somebody looks at somebody wrong.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

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

He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

A hungry man is not a free man.