Poverty Quotes - Page 11

• What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Art, Wish

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Credit, Worthy

  Twitter post from Feb 27, 2012

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• If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Coats, Wealth, Rich

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.134

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• Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.

  Willy Brandt

  War, Opportunity, Being Thankful

  Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”

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• The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

  Dalai Lama

  God, Peace, Responsibility

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

  Plato

  Plato, War, Cities

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.252, Penguin

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• It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.14, Orbis Books

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• It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
  but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
  to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
  and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

  Horace

  Men, Blessing, Use

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• Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

  William Hazlitt

  Luxury, Rich, Vain

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Men, Guilty

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.158

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• It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

  Juvenal

  Madness, Rich, Dies

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• The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Children, Mean, Men

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

  Alexander Pope

  World, Want, Figures

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope ... Collated with the best editions: by Thomas Park”, p.99

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• If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

  Martial

  Riches, Poor, Given

  Martial (1907). “The Epigrams of Martial”

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• The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
  [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

  Juvenal

  Traveler, Robbers

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• There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion, there is a great deal, but little as to the pleasures and satisfactions of life. They enjoy the same earth and air and heavens; hunger and thirst make the poor man's meat and drink as pleasant and relishing as all the varieties which cover the rich man's table; and the labor of a poor man is more healthful, and many times more pleasant, too, than the ease and softness of the rich.

  Thomas Sherlock

  Men, Differences, Air

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 454, 1895.

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• We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

  E. M. Forster

  Poet, Poor, Taxi

  Howards End Chapter 6

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• The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

  Marty Natalegawa

  Impact, Population, Urban

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• If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

  Arnold Bennett

  Heart, Poor, Ifs

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• To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely. And you are, dear brothers and sisters, in the face of Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Brother, Mean

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• Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Education, Jobs, Thinking

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• The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

  Muhammad Yunus

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Opportunity

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2015

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• There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

  John Green

  Hipster, Facets

  "Nerdfighting in Bangladesh". www.youtube.com. April 8, 2008.

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• In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Funny, People

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• Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

  George C. Marshall

  War, World, Prosperity

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