Quotes About Poverty

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

There's no future in being poor.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.