“I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.” BelievePovertyConditionsMessagesToughAreasKingdomsBritainKingdom Of GodDeprivation Author:N. T. Wright
“A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in poverty. People don't know how different it is over there.” PeopleKnowsDifferentCulturePovertyKnow HowRichAreasShockCulture Shock Author:Wiz Khalifa
“I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. Even growing up in an orphanage, I never woke up saying, "I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me."” LittlesTodaySidesPoorPovertyGrowing UpGrowingGrewTerribleGrew UpAreasHungerEastDetroitOrphanScarcityOrphanageEast SidePoor Me Author:Wayne Dyer
“Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.” PovertyAreasQuaintRural Areas Author:John Gummer
“Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children.” ChildrenProblemWaterPerfectPovertyIssuesAreasCrisisCleanHungerStormJust OneTollsClean WaterDisadvantagedPerfect StormWater Crisis Author:Matt Damon
“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.” KindPersonsMadeCountryEnoughSchoolLastsUsedMotherFatherLostDifferencesPayClassPovertyMinutesCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAreasLocalsSuitsTeenagerFactoriesInfantScholarshipNo MoneyLast MinuteTuitionGoing To CollegeKind PersonHigh School Class Author:Samuel Alito
“Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas. So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindPovertyDyingFrontsNeededAreasNuclearOperationsUnemploymentPakistanManipulateCarrotsProliferationNuclear ProliferationMusharraf Author:Benazir Bhutto
“Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in the rural areas, that's true. But rural America, you can say the same thing, in Appalachia there's an awful lot of poverty and lack of education.” IfsHardAmericaWalksCitiesPovertyStreetsModernAreasArguingAwfulBeijingAppalachiaRural AreasLack Of EducationRural America Author:Michael Bloomberg
“You're either in a position of abundance or you're in a position of poverty. Now, that's every area of your life. That's not just financially.” PovertyPositionAreasAbundance Author:Paula White
“On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.” PeopleLooksHandsAsksPovertyIssuesBenefitsAreasUniversalWelfareTrappedAffordableDependency Author:David Cameron
“For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.” HumansProblemSituationPovertyGreaterDesignAreasStructureStatisticsUnemploymentMontreal Author:Kim Campbell
“It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?” IfsShouldHumansIdeasFormIndividualWealthHuman BeingsMoralPovertyTakenModernParticularProjectsAreasIdealsGuidesCoreMaking MoneyGood LifeComplaintsFlawedDecencySkepticalStrandsFiascoWealth And Poverty Author:Alain de Botton