P Quotes
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“Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck”
Source: Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
“Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.”
“Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!”
“Poverty is a scourge and must be dealt with surge.”
“Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.”
“Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with unhealthy environmental factors, you will think poorly, speak poorly, act and behave poorly.”
“Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”
“Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]”
“Poverty is a tick that feeds on virtue.”
Source: The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones
“Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.”
“Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.”
“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”
“Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.”
“Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.”
“Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.”
“Poverty is an age-old concept , which is corelated with enjoyment of necessities of life and that it is an evil which the world is fighting till date. Poverty alleviating shibboleths such as philanthropy, social service schemes, social reforms, reformative policies etc, seem fatuous yielding exiguous results.”
“Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.”
Source: Literary studies
“Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational.”
Source: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.”
“Poverty is an extensive issue that is prevalent in every country”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Poverty is an opportunity to show generosity and benevolence”
Source: The Danger Of Monoculturalism In The XXI Century
“Poverty is another death, poverty is being dead while living, and human beings, who are always afraid of death, are also afraid of the poor, ignore them, pass by them silently, and immediately run away!”
“Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times.”
Source: Travels With My Aunt
“Poverty is at least a trillion times more likely than wealth to make one wonder what the purpose of life is.”
“Poverty is bad,
but so is decadence.
Tyranny is bad,
but so is chaos.
Injustice is bad,
but so is godlessness.”
“Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.”
“Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.”
“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.”
“Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.”
“Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.”
“Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.”
“Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.”
Source: Plutarch's Lives
“Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.”
“Poverty is economic oppression.
Tyranny is political oppression.
Oppose those who oppress others.
Support those who liberate others.”
“Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty”
“Poverty is everywhere, Zarish. People should have the courage to get out of the vicious circle of it.”
Source: Undying Affinity
“Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.”
“Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.”
“Poverty is greatly exaggerated by sanity.”
“Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.”
Source: Tram 83
“Poverty is in separatism. Abundance is in unity.”
“Poverty is irrelevant when there is proper time conversion.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Poverty is its own cruel trap but still raises questions about whether we own our possessions or are owned by them. Somewhere in the middle of Pennsylvania we saw a man who had tied the handle of a snow shovel to his belt and then piled all his belongings onto the blade, which sledded along behind him. Depending on your perspective he was either the freest man in the country or just the poorest.”
Source: Freedom
“Poverty is just a state of mind.”
“Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.”
“Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.”
“poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.”
“Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.”
“Poverty is man-made pain.”