Poverty Quotes - Page 23

• The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.

  A. C. Bradley

  Men, Suffering, Vices

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.9, A. C. Bradley

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• Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

  Megan Lee

  Isolation, Mistrust, Humiliation

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• The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.

  Robert Scheer

  Children, Fate, Compassion

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• My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

  Hugh Jackman

  Country, Dad, Clients

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• With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Color, America

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.144, One World

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• Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Kids, Track, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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  There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

  Lenny Bruce

  War, Bread, Helping

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Misery, Illness

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• And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

  Angela Carter

  Useless Things, Cash, Way

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• I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  War, Believe, Fighting

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• A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.

  George Orwell

  War, Ignorance, Past

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• The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

  Charles A. Beard

  Character, Two, Tests

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• To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease or to think riches when in the midst of the appearances of poverty requires power, but whoever acquires this power becomes a mastermind. That person can conquer fate and can have what he or she wants.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Fate, Thinking, Disease

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• Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hate, Ignorance, Self

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• Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

  Democritus

  Democracy, Slavery, Prosperity

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• Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Want, Poor

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• My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty.

  Charles Rangel

  President, Millions

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• Poverty is the worst form of death.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Form, Worst

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• Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

  Margaret Catley-Carlson

  Water, Decision, Risk

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• Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

  Bill Gates

  Goal, Helping, Consensus

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• The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

  Bill Gates

  World, Disease, Belief

  "Bill Gates: No more poor countries by 2035" by Simeon Bennett and Laura Marcinek, www.sfgate.com. January 21, 2014.

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• The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, People, All Time Low

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• China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

  Bill Gates

  China, Rate, Adopted

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• It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

  Mother Teresa

  America, India, Spirituality

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• Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

  Josh Billings

  Kind, Pity, Dread

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.232

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