Quotes About Poverty

Also, the two billion poorest people on the planet still lack access to basics like toilets, housing, food, health care, education, and so on. This means that fully one-quarter of humanity, enough to equal the entire human population of the year 1960, is immiserated in ways that the poorest people of the feudal era or the Upper Paleolithic were not.

The three richest people in the world possess more financial assets than all the people in the forty-eight poorest countries added together. The wealthiest one percent of the human population owns more than the bottom seventy percent. And

and indeed many of those harmed often vote for politicians who will increase their relative impoverishment. Thus the power of hegemony: we may be poor but at least we're patriots!

Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise.

If she could help it, she would totally forget about her penniless, project-housing upbringing. She would forget about the fact that she and her younger sister, Diane, had sometimes gone to bed starving…as well as about being forced to wear secondhand clothing, all of

ingen Penge mere og kan ikke arbejde, blaut, Far, udsuget, Fan danse mig.

El inteligente pobre es un observador mucho más fino que el rico inteligente. El pobre mira a su alrededor a cada paso que da, espía suspicazmente cada palabra que oye a las gentes que encuentra; a cada paso que da él mismo impone a sus pensamientos y sus sentimientos un deber, una norma. Tiene el oído fino, es impresionable, es un hombre experimentado, su alma tiene quemaduras.

En mand kan være brødløs, har han potet så er han ikke matløs.

poor people are often obliged to take chances that rich ones are spared.

It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less