Quotes About Poverty

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

To refrain from unlawful and impious source of pleasures is an ornament to the poor and to be thankful for the riches granted is the adornment of wealth.

If poverty was a man, I would have slain him.

Thus an explanation has arisen—the 'culture of poverty' thesis—which has painted the African American community, especially, as suffering from a cultural deficit of single-parent families, low educational aspirations, laziness, and 'welfare dependency', and which, together or singly, explains the continuing disadvantaged position of African Americans in particular.

he's always being told how lucky he is to have in a world where so many have so little

the prosperity gap between very rich and very poor in France was less than that between the handful of most affluent grands colons of Algeria and the petit blanc; while between the latter and his Muslim competitor, the differential was, in contrast, extremely slender.

The "lamp of the poor" is hardly visible in urban southwestern Ontario, although there are many poor who move disjointedly beneath it. And the stars are seldom clearly seen above the pollution of prosperity.

la pobreza es para los unos la prueba de la paciencia y de la resignación, y la riqueza es para los otros la prueba de la caridad y de la abnegación.

Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.

Hace treinta años los hijos heredaban la pobreza, pero también la dignidad de sus padres, una manera de ser pobres sin sentirse humillados, sin dejar de ser dignos ni de luchar por el futuro.

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

Do you not see the wealth of the land of the Persians ? Do you not remember the poverty of the land of the Arabs ? Do you not see how the crops in this land cover the earth ? If the holy war were not enjoined by Allah, we should still come and conquer this rich land and exchange the hunger of our deserts for the abundant eating which is now ours.

No se trata aquí de establecer una jerarquía entre los pueblos. Al contrario. Se trata de mostrar que el hambre es su mayor seña de identidad. A los países que nos dan la lata con el carácter supuestamente único de su población, hay que decirles que toda nación es una ecuación que se articula alrededor del hambre.".

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.

Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.