Poverty Quotes - Page 19

• Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Scorpions, Poor

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• Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Degradation

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• I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Wall, Successful, Thinking

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• Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices

  Og Mandino

  Grief, Ignorance, Keys

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• Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Facts, Proof, Bigs

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• It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hands, Prosperity, Close Friends

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• Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty.

  Suze Orman

  Gone Away, Wake Up, Credit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Struggle, Class, Want

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• If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change so radically that most of what we call "stupidity" and even a great deal of what we consider "insanity" might disappear, and the "intractable" problems of war, poverty and injustice would suddenly seem a great deal closer to solution.

  Alfred Korzybski

  War, Thinking, People

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• I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

  Vijay Singh

  People, Asia, Culture

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• We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands.
  It is as simple as that.
  It is the rich who are making the world poorer.
  Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.

  Petra Kelly

  Struggle, Simple, Land

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• Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Life And Death, Noble

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.20, Modern Library

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• Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Art, War, Men

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• The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Way, Helping, Poor

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• Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Perdition, Redistribution Of Wealth

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.

  Patrick Grant

  Running, Hard Work, Humble

  "Recognize Craftsmanship". Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com. October 8, 2013.

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• Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

  Julius Nyerere

  People, Pennies, Tanzania

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• There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Want, Riches, Sweetness

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• Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Men, Eight

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• Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.

  Dustin Hoffman

  People, Looks, Faces

  "What I've Learned: Dustin Hoffman" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 16, 2007.

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• I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.

  Peter Yarrow

  Children, Reality, Two

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• In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Country, Crime, Other Countries

  England and the English (1833)

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• Poverty has strange bedfellows.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Strange, Strange Bedfellows, Bedfellows

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• For avarice begins where poverty ends.

  Honore de Balzac

  Avarice Greed, Ends, Avarice

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• Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life.

  Robert Bridges

  Men, Animal, Air

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