Poverty Quotes - Page 30

• The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Real, Employment, Earning

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). “The Wisdom of Henry Hazlitt”, Foundation for Economic Education

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• Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead, like poverty, crime, and homelessness, child abuse came to be viewed as evidence of a societal failure.

  Mona Charen

  Children, Character, Parent

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

  Peter Thomas Bauer

  Progress, West, Agents

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• Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.

  Richard Ebeling

  Country, America, Socialist Countries

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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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• 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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• 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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• Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Race, Sickness, Early Death

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• A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Religious, Dread, Ought

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• I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

  Michael Caine

  Years, People, Giving

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• Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

  Khalil Gibran

  Purses, Surrender

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• Obedience is a consecration of the heart, chastity of the body, and poverty of all worldly goods to the Love and Service of God. Blessed indeed are the obedient, for God will never permit them to go astray.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Blessed, Heart, Body

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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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• 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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• The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.

  Robert Scheer

  Children, Fate, Compassion

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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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• 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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  There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

  Lenny Bruce

  War, Bread, Helping

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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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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• I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  War, Believe, Fighting

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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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• My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty.

  Charles Rangel

  President, Millions

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• Poverty is the worst form of death.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Form, Worst

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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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• The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, People, All Time Low

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