Poverty Quotes - Page 17

• Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

  Charles Handy

  Spiritual, Grumbling, Ordinary

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• Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence of Buddhism and Christianity from their primitive patterns. For it should not be forgotten that by their glorification of poverty and celibacy both these religions struck straight at the root not merely of civil society but of human existence. The blow was parried by the wisdom or the folly of the vast majority of mankind, who refused to purchase a chance of saving their souls with the certainty of extinguishing the species.

  James G. Frazer

  Buddhism, Blow, Roots

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• The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Moving, Men

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.141, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

  John Pilger

  Real, Terrorism

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• We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, War, Fighting

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “The Creative Society: Some Comments on Problems Facing America”

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• When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come from Mexico, come from Korea, come from the Philippines, come from Salvador, and were doing really well, it motivates them to do better. The former students give them a vision of what's possible.

  Rafe Esquith

  Country, Kids, Successful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• 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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• If you're in poverty and all you have is a debit card or a prepaid card or you pay in cash, it does not report to a credit bureau. If it doesn't report to a credit bureau, it cannot create a credit score for yourself.

  Suze Orman

  Doe, Cards, Credit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America, but certainly what we see globally. And I don't see anywhere any philosophical analysis that suggests we know how to get out of this.

  Harry Belafonte

  Philosophical, America, Analysis

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 30, 2011.

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• Since I have escaped the harshness of the economic bounds of poverty, I have stayed very connected to it spiritually. I reside and live and go and socialize and exist among those who suffer daily from the relationship that they have to poverty, Black men and women who are incarcerated. Actually, all people who are incarcerated, not just Black.

  Harry Belafonte

  Men, People, Black

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 30, 2011.

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• When I go across the country, whether it's Albuquerque, New Mexico, whether it's Birmingham, Alabama or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there are always forces at play that I choose to relate to and extract inspiration from, and as long as they stay committed to the struggle against poverty, I find a role for myself.

  Harry Belafonte

  Country, Struggle, Inspiration

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 30, 2011.

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• I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I go and find the environment of those who are living in poverty and resisting poverty is a great in which I have great comfort.

  Harry Belafonte

  America, Comfort, Asia

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

  Andrew Young

  Kings, War, Thinking

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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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• Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

  Kathy Acker

  Worry, Hunger, Driven

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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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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• I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

  Hillary Clinton

  Sensitive Person, Want, Helping

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Facts, Proof, Bigs

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• 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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• Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen's Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.

  A.C. Grayling

  Guitar, Names, Hypocrisy

  "Can an atheist be a fundamentalist?" by A. C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2006.

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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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• What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

  Oliver Stone

  Venezuela, Done, Ends

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• I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

  Ricky Gervais

  Office, Firsts, Remember

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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