Quotes About Poverty

Ninguna revolución ha logrado traer prosperidad a América Latina. Sólo ha traído corrupción (la revolución ha derivado en robolución), dictadura y privilegios para la casta gobernante a expensas del grueso de la población sumergida en la pobreza. Nuestras revoluciones no han producido otra cosa que miseria moral, política, económica y cultural.

Los países africanos se mueren de hambre, en efecto, pero no por obra del Banco Mundial, sino de bárbaros dictadorzuelos que comparten las tesis tercermundistas del señor [Pierre] Galand, precisamente porque ellas suministran una coartada, desviando la atención popular de su propia deshonestidad, rapacidad e incompetencia y echándoles la culpa a otros de los males provocados por ellos.

Si el Estado del Bienestar redistribuye la pobreza y reduce los ingresos, el buenismo educativo redistribuye la ignorancia y reduce el conocimiento".

Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things: wealth will make you happy, because it will enable you to benefit many; and poverty, as you will not then have many anxieties; and glory, for it will make you honoured; and obscurity, for you will then be safe from envy.

Even so the more a vicious man denies his vice, the more does it insinuate itself and master him: as those people really poor who pretend to be rich get still more poor from their false display.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

I am only a poor man, accustomed to small things and silence.

Kami memang orang miskin. Di mata orang kota kemiskinan itu kesalahan. Lupa mereka lauk yg dimakannya itu kerja kami.

Laut tetap kaya takkan kurang, cuma hati dan budi manusia semakin dangkal dan miskin.

Bahwa orang yang punya itu banyak menimbulkan kesusahan pada yang tak punya. Dan mereka tak merasai ini.

Di sana, di kampung nelayan tetesan deras keringat membuat orang tak sempat membuat kehormatan, bahkan tak sempat mendapatkan nasi dalam hidupnya terkecuali jagung tumbuk yang kuning. Betapa mahalnya kehormatan dan nasi.

Kala itu kemiskinan selalu melayang-layang di angkasa dan menyambari kepalaku.

Ada diajarkan oleh kaum brahmana: orang kaya terkesan pongah di mata si miskin, orang bijaksana terkesan angkuh di mata si dungu, orang gagah-berani terkesam dewa di mata si pengecut, juga sebaliknya Kakanda, orang miskin tak berkesan apa-apa pada si kaya, orang dungu terkesan mengibakan pada si bijaksana, orang pengecut terkesan hina pada si gagah-berani. Tetapi semua kesan itu salah. Orang harus mengenal mereka lebih dahulu.

Rich people donates a pinch from one hand and picks up handful from other from the pocket of poor. #RealityOfCharity

A moneyless man goes fast through the market

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. Danish

God loves the poor and helps the rich.

He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper.

He who has his purse full preaches to the poor man.

Poor people's words go many to a sackful.

Rich men accumulate money; the poor accumulate years. #RealityofCharity