Quotes About Poverty

At first, Comrade Professor described the injustices that the farmers had suffered at the hands of the rich. The time had come, he said, when the villagers could redress their wrongs. He called on the poor farmers to have no mercy on the karakuls, and, what struck us most, he called on us to destroy them. Killing the rich, he declared, was the only way for poor farmers to attain a better and more prosperous life.

To break his spirit, the village officials and the collective farm organizers hesitated at nothing The most powerful weapon in their hands was the tax. They levied taxes payable in kind and money. Every time Shost thought he had paid all that was required, more items were taxed, and more of the produce of this hand was taken from him. Finally, the day came when he had no more money or grain.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4 0, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to judge, but I've read the gospels quite a few times, and it seems pretty clear that 'Christian values' are: 1-humility, 2-non-judgementalism, 3-caring for the poor, 4-compassion, 5-love, and 6-serving God.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of p0verty are fought to map change.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

Los economistas han demostrado que es, por ejemplo, lo que ocurre en la emigración: las personas emigran no porque sufran una privación absoluta, sino una privación relativa; no porque sean pobres, sino porque son conscientes de que pueden vivir mejor. Cuanto más contacto tenemos unos con otros, más aspiraciones genera ese contacto.

Millones juzgan que están en juego las libertades políticas y desaprueban que el presidente quiera llevar el país a un modelo como el de Cuba gracias a los votos que obtendrá engañando a los pobres con promesas que se sabe que son imposibles, regalándoles pollos, televisores, neveras o, directamente, dinero.

In many Latin American countries, the historic ties of Catholic bishops with the political elite rendered them less sensitive to the conditions of the poor and especially of indigenous people.

the world market for cheap labor exceeds even the market for cheap sex.

660 million Chinese have escaped poverty since 1981, for example. In Asia, the percentage of those living in extreme poverty dropped from 77 percent of the population in the 1980s to 14 percent in 1998.

Economists and sociologists have concluded that what drives migration is not absolute deprivation,50 or poverty,

Alguien tiene que decir algo sobre las víctimas de los centenares de expropiaciones, sobre los más de dos millones y medio de hectáreas adueñadas a la fuerza que han terminado por convertir al gobierno en el más grande latifundista del país, y que en el fondo no han mejorado la calidad de vida de los más humildes.

Para dicha de los pobres y malestar de los ricos Hugo insiste, de nuevo, en que va a barrer del mapa a los viejos poderes oligárquicos.

The Anglo-Irish occupied a strange position in 1920s Ireland, the time in which the book is set. A breed apart, poverty-stricken yet proud, they were struggling to keep their niche in a changing country.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

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

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.