Quotes About Poverty

For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!

He who laughs and loves is always rich; he who sulks and hates is always poor!

Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!

Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.

Watching snowing would be much greater if there were no homeless people! Man can never be fully happy and comfortable till all men become happy and comfortable!

It is written: 'They have become rich in all virtues' (1 Cor. 1:5). Truly, this cannot happen unless they first become poor in all things. Whoever desires to be given everything, must first give everything away.

say, 'I wish to come to you so that your wealth shall fill my poverty, your infinity shall fill my emptiness, and your immeasurable, incomprehensible Godhead shall fill my base and wretched humanity.

our Lord said, 'Blessed are the poor in spirit' (Matt. 5:3), which is to say those who are poor in will.

No. But it's like the argument `don't donate to third-world countries because the money mightn't get to them.' People only say that because it makes them feel better about the fact that they do nothing.

How come no one idolizes or praises the missionaries who give up everything and live in poverty, endangering their lives and their families with every danger that the American dream has almost completely eliminated? How come no one lifts up and exalts the ghetto and prison ministers and preachers? Because we are taught early on 1) that comfort is our goal and security and 2) that we should always seek for a lot of people to like us.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?Another day older and deeper in debt.Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't goI owe my soul to the company store.

illiterate. Al Qaeda recruiters make use of their poverty, despair, resentment, and eagerness to take revenge against the American troops to recruit them.53 The women are exploited based on three factors: tribal affiliation, financial pressure, and revenge for the loss of family. In traditional Islamic societies,

A diferença entre a Guerra e a Paz é a seguinte: na Guerra, os pobres são os primeiros a serem mortos; na Paz os pobres são os primeiros a morrer. Para nós, mulheres, há ainda uma outra diferença: na Guerra, passamos a ser violadas por quem não conhecemos.

The greatest misfortune for a poor country is that, instead of producing wealth, it produces rich people. But rich people without wealth. In fact, it would be better to call them moneyed rather than rich: a rich person is one who possesses the means of production. A rich person is someone who generates money and provides jobs. A moneyed person is someone who quite simply has some cash. Or rather, he thinks he has. For, in reality, it's the cash that has him.

Vinte e cinco é para vocês que vivem nos bairros de cimento. Para nós, negros pobres que vivemos na madeira e zinco, o nosso dia ainda está por vir.

The difference between war and peace is as follows: in war, the poor are the first to be killed; in peace, the poor are the first to die. For us women, there's another difference too: in war, we get raped by those we do not know.

No meu tempo de menino tínhamos pena dos pobres. Eles cabiam naquele lugarzinho menor, carentes de tudo, mas sem perder humanidade. Os meus filhos, hoje, têm medo dos pobres. A pobreza converteu-se num lugar monstruoso.

Na guerra, os pobres são mortos. Na paz, os pobres morrem.

The Templars were sworn to poverty, chastity, and obedience.

Living as a richer person among the poor is very stressful