Quotes on poverty
It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.
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Clare Short Quotes
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
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Heinrich Heine Quotes
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
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Eli Khamarov Quotes
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.
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William James Quotes
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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W.C. Fields Quotes
To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food.
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Nicholas de Chamfort Quotes
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Poverty is the mother of crime.
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Marcus Aurelius Quotes
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Bill Vaughan Quotes
Affluence creates poverty.
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Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
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Eva Perón Quotes
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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William James Quotes
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.
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Bernard Malamud Quotes
Hope is the poor man's bread.
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Gary Herbert Quotes
The poor are poor because the rich are rich.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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Woody Allen Quotes
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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John W. Gardner Quotes
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
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John Berger Quotes
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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Willem de Kooning Quotes
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
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Horace Quotes
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
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Bill Clinton Quotes