Poverty Quotes - Page 3

• There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

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• It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

  Frederik Willem de Klerk

  Racism, Doe, Reign

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• Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, Labor Day, Together

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  Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.85

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• We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Society, Politician, Poor

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• The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

  Willem de Kooning

  Time, Trouble, Poor

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• Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Danger, Chiefs

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

  William James

  Ambition, Order, Political

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stress, Mean, Hardship

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Witty, Humorous, Food

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• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Being Free, Endure

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• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Freedom, People

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

  Josh Billings

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Cost

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• Live simply so that others may simply live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Simple, Diversity

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• The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, Joy, Humanity

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• I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

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• Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Bones, Sweetest

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden”, p.346, Collector's Library

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• To a man with an empty stomach food is God

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Food, Men, Empty

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• Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Wise, Wells

  Bertolt Brecht (1962). “Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo”

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• Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Morning, Drinking, Yesterday

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• The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Men, Voice

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• A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

  Juvenal

  Men, Faces, Robbers

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