Quotes About Poverty

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

Although Brazil never practised the racial segregation that marred the United States or South Africa, many of the poor in today's Brazil are of darker skin than the better-off.

New City was the first church I'd ever been to in my twenty-two years as a Christian that had a substantial number of members who were economically poor, who came as full participants rather than objects of charity, who called out to be recognized as eyes or toes or thumbs of the body of Christ rather than simply as folks with empty bowls on the other side of the soup kitchen line.

Our grandparents' "normal" has become our "almost impoverished.

Although reality can sometimes corrupt the fairy tale and alter our ambitions, some things remain unalterable. From the richest to the poorest, we start and end with family.

environmentalists were "self-righteous, elitist, neo-Malthusians who call for slow growth or no growth . . . and who would condemn the black underclass, the slum proletariat, and rural blacks, to permanent poverty."61

While some homeless are attracted to San Francisco for housing and services, many of San Francisco's most visible homeless people don't use them. When I visited the Tenderloin with Tom Wolf, he pointed to the doorway to a building. "I slept here," he said, "because I was such an addict that I didn't want to walk the five blocks to the shelter. I wanted to be right near the dealers.

What about the flip side of the economic ledger – the poor? Even Jesus gave up hope for them and offered only early entrance to heaven.

What is this 'white trash'?" asked the model. "They're people just like me," said Trump, "only they're poor.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer." —Ludwig Von Mises

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer." —Ludwig Von Mises

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

The "Great Society" has not worked and it's put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don't have food stamps. If you look at China, they're in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security... They don't have the modern welfare state and China's growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they'd be gone.

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.

our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

Los ciudadanos que anhelaban el bien de la patria están lejos; unos piden limosna en casa ajena, otros pudren tierra en fosa común.

Curioso ¿por qué?... Después de todo, somos los pobres los más conformes. ¡Y qué remedio, pues!... Verdá es que con eso de la escuela los que han aprendido a ler andan influenciados de cosas imposibles. Hasta mi mujer resulta a veces triste porque dice que quisiera tener alas los domingos.

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots.

Para el que no tiene nada, la política es una tentación comprensible, porque es una manera de vivir con bastante facilidad