Poverty Quotes - page 63

Everything related to the emotional plague in social life can be traced back to this incapacity and lack of consciousness. It is work-democracy's contention that, by its very nature, politics is and has to be unscientific, i.e., that it is an expression of human helplessness, poverty, and suppression. (Wilhelm Reich)
It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible. View quote
Joseph Stalin
Poverty breeds rebellion and crime. View quote
Aristotle
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. View quote
Henry Ford
This "Clash of Civilizations" has led to a "Clash of Religions", leading in turn to war, terror and extreme poverty. View quote
Begum Aga Khan
The most powerful tool to lift families out of extreme poverty is to grant micro-loans to women. View quote
Begum Aga Khan
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins. View quote
Chanakya
It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty. View quote
Chanakya
Charity puts and end to poverty righteous conduct to misery discretion to ignorance and scrutiny to fear. View quote
Chanakya
Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it. View quote
Noam Chomsky
For real wealth is the developed productive power of all individuals. The measure of wealth is then not any longer, in any way, labour time, but rather disposable time. Labour time as the measure of value posits wealth itself as founded on poverty, and disposable time as existing in and because of the antithesis to surplus labour time; or, the positing of an individual's entire time as labour time, and his degradation therefore to mere worker, subsumption under labour. The most developed machinery thus forces the worker to work longer than the savage does, or than he himself did with the simplest, crudest tools. (Karl Marx)
No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which if surrendered will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them till all of liberty shall be lost. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: "We give thanks to thee for thy great glory." View quote
C. S. Lewis
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know. View quote
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty. View quote
Brock Chisholm
It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life-it can be a superabundance of interest... View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty! View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. View quote
Abdul Kalam
All intense interest in luxury is a mark of inner poverty. The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body. View quote
Fulton J. Sheen
These are the enemies: poverty, ignorance, disease. They are the enemies and not our fellow man, not our neighbor. And these enemies too, poverty, disease and ignorance, we shall over, come. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
Beyond that frontier are the uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus. (John F. Kennedy)
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance. View quote
John F. Kennedy
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to. View quote
Phillips Brooks
Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism. View quote
Dennis Prager
Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. View quote
Dennis Prager