Quotes About Poverty

Los que hemos nacido pobres tenemos que valernos de artimañas para conseguir lo que queremos. Los escrúpulos son cosa de los privilegiados.

Es peligroso para un pobre intentar defender sus derechos.

He was the richest man in the world, yet he was always broke.

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of only 100 people, it would look something like this: There would be 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 North and South Americans 8 Africans 30 white 70 nonwhite 6 people would possess 59% of the world's wealth, and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer malnutrition 1 would have a college education 1 would own a computer

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.

Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

Nosotros, los habitantes de este mundo tercero y postrero, no necesitamos el menor esfuerzo mental para saber en qué consiste el infierno de la opulenta sociedad de consumo, de la tersa y radiante sociedad industrial: nos basta con salir a la calle. Pasan con sus sucias mantas al hombro los hijos de la indigencia. Vienen de los basureros o van hacia ellos. Podemos imaginar los paisajes de apocalipsis donde transcurren sus vidas.

Colombia es hoy un país donde los pobres no pueden comer, la clase media no puede comprar y los ricos no pueden dormir.

It is a reproach to religion and government to suffer so much poverty and excess.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

Many of these children have low aspirational levels, lack those out-of-school experiences which are so richly provided when parents are in more favorable circumstances.…

In a society in which everyone is assumed and expected to be economically self-sufficient, as an example, doesn't economic dependency almost automatically mean poverty? No attention is given to such issues.)

For herein Fortune shows herself more kindThan is her custom: it is still her useTo let the wretched man outlive his wealth,To view with hollow eye and wrinkled browAn age of poverty.