Quotes About Poverty

spread my usual smokescreen of farce. "They say that love flies out the window when poverty comes in the door, but people generally get the sense backwards. It doesn't mean that when a man's money runs out he's shaken off by women. When he runs out of money, he naturally is in the dumps. He's no good for anything. The strength goes out of his laugh, he becomes strangely soured. Finally, in desperation, he shakes off the woman.

The clash between rich and poor is a hackneyed enough subject, but I am now convinced that it really is one of the eternal themes of drama.

He's probably quite good at mathematical calculations, but he doesn't seem to have ever handled accounts of money. Because we have always been poor,

Incluso ahora pienso que los enfrentamientos entre pobres y ricos es un tema de parece caduco, pero que siempre formará parte de las tragedias

People also talk of a criminal consciousness All my life in this world of human beings I have been tortured by such a consciousness, but it has been my faithful companion, like a wife in poverty, and together, just the two of us, we have indulged in our forlorn pleasures.

Poverty and scholarship have always gone hand in hand, it seems, and one can't help but wonder why that might be.

He would show up not with women but with two or three newspaper or magazine reporters. According to some of these fellows, now that the military had fallen, the impoverished poets and artists were going to be the new public heroes.

Where waste occurs, want will follow

Poverty and scholarship, it would seem, have always gone hand in hand, and one can't help but wonder why that should be.

Who are jails made for? Only poor people are put in jails! They are probably just the weak and honest people who don't know how to trick others. Just because they aren't craft or evil enough to get by through tricking other people, they get driven into a corner and end up doing something stupid, like stealing two or three yen. And for that they have to go to jail for five or ten years!

Ensuring social protection for all children and other vulnerable groups is critical to reduce poverty.

No matter how good we get at solving environmental problems, it's not enough to create a truly sustainable economy unless we address the social challenges that imperil sustainability. Foremost among those challenges are inequality and poverty.

Poverty has many dimensions, but its causes include unemployment, social exclusion, and high vulnerability of certain populations to disasters, diseases and other phenomena which prevent them from being productive.

Those who have much are often greedy, those who have little always share.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Yo soy tan pobre como la naturaleza, y tan simple como el firmamento.

O what a threadbare life we lead, how pitifully poor the words of joy! All has been seen, all will be seen again, only the moment of recognition is sweet.

As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the best you have got every time; never think about who you are giving it to; let other people take it or leave it as they choose. Pour out the best you have, and always be poor. Never reserve anything; never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives.

God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.

I remembered Ben's words when I also entered that abomination of desolation—the eastern half of the city of labor. In the little cottage in the pine wood, even in the dreariness of winter and under the drag of poverty, there had been beauty—beauty in the white, smooth, glittering enow;

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.