Quotes About Poverty

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

handing me the fare. "Hardly any food in your cupboards, and what's there is only fit for birds and rabbits." My stomach grumbled as if in agreement. I took a bite, closed my eyes, and savored the

The Proletarian Cultural Revolution, ushered in with so much fanfare and promise for the Chinese masses, had not really changed their lives or given them new opportunities for development. The Chinese people continued to struggle against poverty, shortages, and lack of choice. The Cultural Revolution had merely created a new set of circumstances to which at least the young workers were adjusting with cynicism and audacity.

En la vida, en cualquier lugar, bien entre las duras, pobres, tristes y sucias filas de la clase baja, o entre las uniformemente frías y de monótona pulcritud de la clase elevada, y por lo menos una vez en la vida, el hombre encuentra en su camino una visión que no se parece nada de lo que ha visto hasta entonces, que despierta en él un sentimiento distinto de aquellos que le está predestinado sentir durante toda su existencia.

Why, then, make a show of the poverty of our life and our sad imperfection, unearthing people from the backwoods, from remote corners of the state? But what if this is in the writer's nature, and his own imperfection grieves him so, and the makeup of his talent is such, that he can only portray the poverty of our life, unearthing people from the backwoods, from the remote corners of the state! So here we are again in the backwoods, again we have come out in some corner!

I am very fond of the theatre. If I have only a kopeck in my pocket, I always go there. Most of my fellow-officials are uneducated boors, and never enter a theatre unless one throws free tickets at their head.

Pulcheria Ivanovna reached out her hand to stroke her; but the ungrateful animal had evidently become too well used to robber cats, or adopted some romantic notion about love and poverty being better than a palace, for the cats were as poor as church-mice.

The offender must be able to give something back. But criminals are most often poor people. They have nothing to give. The answers to this are many. It is correct that our prisons are by and large filled with poor people. We let the poor pay with the only commodity that is close to being equally distributed in society: time.

He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.

Nothing meaning the absence of tangible threats—no gun to her head, no knife to her throat—and yet what is poverty if not a threat? What is being called that word or followed down the street by packs of boys if not a threat?

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

It would take many centuries before Christian preachers started to teach that when Christ said, 'Blessed are the poor for theirs in the Kingdom of Heaven,' he meant not just the poor in spirit (the pious), but the actual impoverished masses of people.

Due scugnizzi davano la caccia a un gatto zoppo, la cui morte avrebbe regalato alle loro magre esistenze un breve divertimento (223).

La pauvreté extrême en Chine est évaluée à moins de 1%. Plus de Chinois sont propriétaires de leur logement que tout autre peuple.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

Pobre y desnuda vas, filosofía, dice la turba atenta al vil negocio.

Lover of pleasure without plenty is a lover of poverty.

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

Romanc?lar için bulunmaz bir okuyucuyum Esat A?abey,' derdi. 'Birinci s?n?f okuyucu; hay?r, daha ileri: lüks okuyucu. Kitaplar?n?n böyle okundu?unu bilselerdi fakirler; bir türlü ölemezlerdi.

Fakir fukaran?n hayat?n? anlatan zengin yazarlar?m?za gece kulüplerinde içtikleri viskileri zehir oluyor. Zengin tak?m?n?n hayat?n? gözlerimizin önüne sermeye çal??an meteliksiz yazarlar?m?z da asl?nda ?u fakir milleti dü?ündükleri için, küçük meyhanelerinde a??z tad?yla içemiyorlar.

he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?

As a country, we've given up our birthright for even less than bread and pottage. We've given it up for nothing—although I'm sure some people somewhere are richer now.

But if all I had to look forward to was marriage to him and babies and poverty that just keeps getting worse, I think I'd kill myself.

All that money wasted on another crazy space trip when so many people here on earth can't afford water, food, or shelter.