Quotes About Poverty

Every city should support its own poor, and if it was too small, the people in the surrounding villages should also be urged to contribute

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.

But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.

InteligenÅ£a te face nefericit, singuratic, s?rac, pe cînd deghizarea inteligenÅ£ei îÅ£i confer? o imortalitate de hîrtie de ziar ÅŸi admiraÅ£ia celor care cred în ce citesc.

I have the curse of reason: I'm poor, single and depressed. For months now I've been thinking about my illness of thinking too much, and I've established with complete certainty the correlation between my unhappiness and the incontinence of my mind. Probing and pondering and overanalyzing have never given me any advantages; they've only played against me.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

Many would have resented the arrogance and disdain, the double standards and the lifestyle of their rich neighbours; lack of zoning in Roman cities may have had its equitable side, but it also meant that the poor constantly had their noses rubbed in the privilege of others. What

There was the enormous disparity of wealth between rich and poor, the squalid living conditions for most of the population, and probably for much of the time, even if not starvation, then persistent hunger.

Whites break the law too, but it is always the poor and the nonwhites who actually do the time in penitentiaries.

The rich kept stuffing their pockets and the poor fell deeper in debt.

E ela se perguntou como era possível fazer da miséria uma religião.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.

Cherish and be thankful for everything you have because there are so many people out there who are struggling to make two ends meet.

To be angry, poverty has to rub shoulders with wealth.