Poverty Quotes - Page 19

• Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

  Stephen Hawking

  Social Unrest, People, Disease

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• No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters; leadership descends from character. If you commit a crime, you're guilty. Compassion is no substitute for justice. Poverty is not the root cause of crime. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kings, Character, Compassion

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• Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

  Lucan

  Men, Giving, Birth

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• Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Degradation

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• Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Humanity, Honour

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• It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.

  Dan Quayle

  Children, Father, Character

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• Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Prosperity, Danger

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• Proper prospecting prevents poverty.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Prospecting

  Jeffrey Gitomer, Jeffrey H. Gitomer (2007). “Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Platinum Book of Cha-ching!: 32.5 Strategies to Ring Your Own (cash) Register of Business and Personal Success”, Ft Press

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• The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Political, Trying, Unrest

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• In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.

  Peter Maurin

  Catholic, Intellectual, Trying

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• Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Years, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

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• There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

  Nelson Mandela

  True Friend, Littles, Said

  Nelson Mandela (2008). “Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.

  Sean Wilentz

  Caught, Parasites, Worthy

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• The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies - Poverty, unemployment.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Fighting, Issues, Enemy

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1967). “Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri commemoration souvenir”

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• You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Waiting, May, Spirit

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• Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Pain, Long, Humanity

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• Science comforting man's animal poverty and leisuring his toil, hath humanized manners and social temper, and now above her globe-spredd net of speeded intercourse hath outrun all magic, and disclosing the secrecy of the reticent air hath woven a web of invisible strands spiriting the dumb inane with the quick matter of life.

  Robert Bridges

  Men, Animal, Air

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• Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

  Julius Nyerere

  People, Pennies, Tanzania

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• Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.

  Bernie Sanders

  Childhood, United States, Salary

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• There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Country, Form

  Pope Francis (2013). “I Ask You to Pray for Me: Opening a Horizon of Hope”, p.44, Paulist Press

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• [B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Needs, Satisfied, Materials

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• We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

  James Dickey

  Suicide, Artist, Frustration

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• Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.

  Josh Bernstein

  Rich, Poor, Tyranny

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• Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Men, Eight

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• Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Done, Program

  Ronald Reagan (1993). “Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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