Poverty Quotes - Page 15

• It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Support, Care, Lost

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.203

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• Who, being loved, is poor?

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Positive, Wealth

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

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• When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.

  Desmond Tutu

  Jesus, People, Political

  "God's Mission in the World: An Ecumenical Christian Study Guide on Global Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals". The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2006.

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• Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty

  Kathleen Blanco

  Religious, Cutting, Rich Or Poor

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• Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Eye, Men, Sin

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.86, 1909.

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• It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.

  Edward de Bono

  Country, People, Leader

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• Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

  Edward de Bono

  Compassion, People, Together

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• But will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our leaders - whether we step up and sustain our moral commitment as the country's conscience would naturally want us to do.

  John Edward

  Country, Commitment, Leader

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• While we fight poverty in the Gulf, we also have to fight poverty across America. We should begin by returning to a promise once kept and now broken: If you work full-time, you shouldn't have to raise your children in poverty.

  John Edward

  Children, Fighting, America

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• ...stand with me today and pledge to work for an America that doesn't ignore those in need and lifts up those who wish to succeed. Pledge to hold your government accountable for ignoring the suffering of so many for far too long. And pledge to do your part to build the America that we have dreamed of - where the bright light of opportunity shines on every person - an America where the family you are born into, or the color of your skin, will never control your destiny.

  John Edward

  Opportunity, Destiny, Color

  "John Edwards: “Restoring the American Dream — Combating Poverty and Building One America”". Speech at the Center for American Progress, thinkprogress.org. September 19, 2005.

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• For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured-disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui-in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.

  Henry Miller

  Fear, War, Eye

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

  Adam Smith

  Respect, Greatness, Age

  Adam Smith (1869). “Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian Verses”, p.57

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• In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

  Michael Moore

  Real, War, Ignorance

  "Fictional character: Winston Smith". "1984", 1984.

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• I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

  Peter Cook

  Luxury, Done, Rotten

  Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.46, Random House

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• The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

  Ted Turner

  People, World, Reason

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• The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a half people in the world who don't have access to electricity.

  Ted Turner

  People, Trying, Serious

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• Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

  Bob Marley

  Today, Chained

  Song: Slave Driver, Album: Catch a Fire, 1973

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• Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.

  Richard Cecil

  Philosophy, Men, Grace

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• There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Disaster, Social, Quick Fixes

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Important, Today

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

  Herbert Simon

  Attention, Information, Wealth

  "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World". "Communication, and the Public Interest". Book by Martin Greenberger, pp. 40-41, 1971.

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• Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

  Katie Davis

  Sin, Circumstances, Conditions

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is the reason I just keep filling up my little eyedropper, keep filling it up and emptying my ocean one drop at a time. I’m not here to eliminate poverty, to eradicate disease, to put a stop to people abandoning babies. I’m just here to love.

  Katie Davis

  Baby, Ocean, Love Is

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• It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

  Robert Anthony

  Order, Perfect, Disease

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• If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.

  Seth

  Finding Yourself, Abundance, Poor

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