Poverty Quotes - Page 18

• Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

  Groucho Marx

  People, Excess, Wealth

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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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• There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Men, Mastery

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.81, Routledge

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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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• When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Luxury, Government, Long

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• Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful, provide more money, and eventually strike at the system-causes of poverty. Government believes that poverty is just a lack of money. We felt, and continue to feel, that poverty is actually a lack of skill, and a lack of the self-esteem that comes with being able to take some part of one's life into one's own hands and work with others towards shared-call them social-goals.

  Karl Hess

  Running, Self Esteem, Believe

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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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• For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Discovery, Worry

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

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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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• The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.

  Warren Mundine

  Strong, Years, Roots

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• In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

  Denis Diderot

  Country, Believe, Vices

  "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Lines, American Poverty, Officials

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born

  George Mason

  Country, Ambition, Son

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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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• 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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• When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Say Anything, Encounters, Needs

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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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• Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

  Adrienne Rich

  Heterosexuality Is, Cost, Ostracism

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For avarice begins where poverty ends.

  Honore de Balzac

  Avarice Greed, Ends, Avarice

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• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  Geneva Overholser

  Country, America, Suffering

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