Best poverty & despair Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.”

Different Political Culture Religious Loss Poverty Despair Rivers Gender Fanaticism Repression Apartheid

Author:Lawrence Wright

“I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.”

People Thinking Believe Helping Happens Jobs Left Poverty Rights Despair Workers Fewer Providing Competitors

Author:Louise Mensch

“And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).”

Source: Race Matters: With a New Introduction

“Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.”

Men Young Black Poverty Roles Despair Models Obligation Young Man Cycles Role Models Hopelessness Vicious Vicious Cycles Cycle Of Poverty

Author:Benjamin Hooks

“If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.”

Ifs May Suffering Turns Opportunity Growth Poverty Violence Economic Despair Abandon Neglect Economic Growth Depriving

Author:Barack Obama

“Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.”

Spirit Poverty Industry Despair Casts Generous Resolution Cows Generous Spirit

Author:Joseph Addison

“For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.”

People Way Trying Years Bigs Government Poverty Despair Fifty Trapped New Ways Big Government

Author:Marco Rubio

“The millions currently trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource. Just think of what it would mean for America to gain full use of the talents and abilities of all her people. They would develop new innovations to improve our lives, or help build the next great American company.”

People Thinking Mean Helping Use America Next Ability Company Poverty Millions Our Lives Talent Despair Gains Resources Innovation Trapped Great American Talents And Abilities

Author:Marco Rubio

“I am but a generation removed from poverty and despair. Where would I be today if there had never been an America? What kind of lives or future would my children have if this was not a land of opportunity?”

Ifs Kind Children Today America Opportunity Poverty Generations Land Despair My Children Land Of Opportunity

Author:Marco Rubio

“Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be.”

Should Humans Artist Poverty Land Skills Despair Paint Wounded Debacles

Author:Keri Hulme

“What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!”

Soul Suffering Poverty Integrity Pure Despair Conscience Disappointment Riches Luxury Anguish Grandeur

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

“Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger no one could say. Of the latter we never spoke, but it was always with us. Fear, constant companion of the peasant. Hunger, ever at hand to jog his elbow should he relax. Despair, ready to engulf him should he falter. Fear; fear of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of the blackness of death.”

Source: Nectar in a sieve and related readings

“Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.”

Age Hours Brain Poverty Loneliness Healthy Despair Projects Optimism Obstacles Enormous Old Age Enlightened Enlightening New Projects

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.”

World Feels Desire Difficult Poverty Despair

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that doesn't read much doesn't know much. And a nation that doesn't know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box and the voting booth...The challenge, therefore, is to convince future generations of children that carrying a book is more rewarding than carrying guns.”

Source: The Read-aloud Handbook

“The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.”

Trying Government Causes Growth Poverty Economic Taxes Despair All Things Increase Rate Spending Pie Unemployment Shrinks Economic Growth Alleviate

Author:Arthur Laffer

“Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.”

Heart Sometimes Poverty Despair Chill Calmness

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.”

Children Long States Jobs Young Girl Cities Poverty Crime Birth Truth Is Husband Despair Welfare Young Women Teenage Starks Welfare State Inner City Teenage Girl Wedlock

Book:Libertarianism: A Primer

Source: Libertarianism: A Primer

“In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.”

Wells Children Country Individual Grows Responsibility Poverty Growing Up Despair Our Children Priorities Well Being Great Country

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.”

“Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?”

Knows Enemy Poverty Violence Despair Smarter Cheaper Turbulent Times

Author:Bono

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”

Source: A Simple Path-Open Market

“The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal... It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and love, so that one simply could not realize that, at the same time as this music was, outside there ruled poverty and torment and despair.”

Made Night Stars Realizing Dark Poverty Air Wind Limits Despair Glory And Love South Burden Warm Streams Melody Sail Torment Unreal Enchanted Swelling Colourful

Book:Three Comrades

Source: Three Comrades

“Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.”

Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

“I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.”

Writing Age Natural Poverty Despair Madness Ill Inevitable Enslavement Unattractive Meaninglessness Insignificance Uselessness Ill Health

Author:William Saroyan

“For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.”

Heart Self Spirit Names Poor Poverty Darkness Despair Destruction Mercy Depth Possession Loving God Plunge Self Destruction Unfathomable Alone Time Alone With God Prized Possessions

Author:Brennan Manning

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