Poverty Quotes - Page 22

• Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the capitalist system, then there is no definable limit to be set on relief, and the politicians who want to be elected or reelected will compete with each other in proposing new 'welfare' programs to fill some hitherto 'unmet need.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  Welfare Programs, Relief, Needs

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

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• Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth of a totalitarian state, and destroy the economic progress that this country has so dearly bought.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Country, Effort, Growth

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.97, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has acceleratively been changing the face of the world, and has provided the masses of mankind with amenities that even kings did not possess or imagine a few generations ago.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Kings, Lasts, Faces

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.

  John Stossel

  Mean, Opportunity, Police

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• There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index.

  Bob Tyrrell

  Country, Boost

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• Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Pain, Relief, Income

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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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• Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ghetto, Race, Discrimination

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• The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We should all be concerned about the plight of the poor and unfortunate. But the hard two-part question that any plan for relieving poverty must answer is: How can we mitigate the penalties of failure and misfortune without undermining the incentives to effort and success.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government Welfare, Two, Effort

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.211, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Evil, Priorities, Matter

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• The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

  Charlie Munger

  Culture, Old Culture, Customs

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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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• 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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• If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers.

  Rajiv Gandhi

  Uplifting, Country, Strong

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Purses, Surrender

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• Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Loneliness, Feelings, Use

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

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Religious, Dread, Ought

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• The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Confused, Opportunity, Color

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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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• 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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• The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

  Pope Francis

  Fighting, Causes, Hunger

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

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• In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Children, Growing Up

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• Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Looks, Elements, Wealth

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• Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

  Plato

  Desire, Wealth, Increase

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