Poverty Quotes - Page 23

• The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

  Charlie Munger

  Culture, Old Culture, Customs

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• Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Past, People, Twenties

  Rajiv Gandhi (1985*). “Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985”

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• If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Uplifting, Country, Strong

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• Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Loneliness, Feelings, Use

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• Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Want, Poor

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• Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Self, Half, Pity

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality”, Library of Alexandria

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• Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.

  Thomas Paine

  Loss, Evil, Inheritance

  Thomas Paine (2013). “Agrarian Justice”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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• Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Looks, Elements, Wealth

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• The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.

  A. C. Bradley

  Men, Suffering, Vices

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.9, A. C. Bradley

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• Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

  Megan Lee

  Isolation, Mistrust, Humiliation

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• My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

  Hugh Jackman

  Country, Dad, Clients

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• With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Color, America

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.144, One World

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• Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Kids, Track, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Misery, Illness

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• And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

  Angela Carter

  Useless Things, Cash, Way

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• A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. 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 the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.

  George Orwell

  War, Ignorance, Past

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• The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

  Charles A. Beard

  Character, Two, Tests

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• Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hate, Ignorance, Self

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• Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

  Democritus

  Democracy, Slavery, Prosperity

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• Poverty is the worst form of death.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Form, Worst

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• Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

  Bill Gates

  Goal, Helping, Consensus

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• The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

  Bill Gates

  World, Disease, Belief

  "Bill Gates: No more poor countries by 2035" by Simeon Bennett and Laura Marcinek, www.sfgate.com. January 21, 2014.

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• China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

  Bill Gates

  China, Rate, Adopted

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• It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

  Mother Teresa

  America, India, Spirituality

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