Quotessence
Home / Topics / Poverty Quotes

Poverty Quotes

Browse 6296 quotes about Poverty.

Related topics

PeoplePoorWorldIfsMenWealthThinkingRichChildrenCountryWarWayNeedsHumansProblemWantHungerKnowsEconomicGivingMeanShouldHelpingSufferingEnding PovertyRichesDiseaseSocialTodayWellsMayEndsMillionsDoeFightingBelieveKindStatesYearsMadeFirstsMindCausesHas BeensPoliticalCrimeMiseryOpportunityLongAmericaCommunityExtremesGovernmentPersonsLittlesRealNationsIssuesProsperityFactsViolenceDevelopmentIgnoranceTwoClassResourcesExtreme PovertyConditionsHeartInequalitySoulCareJusticeWorld PovertyEconomyAidsMoneyImportantSchoolBornSeemsEnoughIndiaInjusticeLooksPainEvilHardInspirationalSelfStruggleTryingFeelsHandsIncomeIndividualJobsSpiritAbleCharitymore

Poverty Quotes

“Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian communities. The Community and College Social Innovation Fund will connect the innovative talent of researchers and students at colleges and polytechnics to meet the research needs of local community organizations to build stronger, safer, healthier communities.”

NeedsGovernmentSocialCommunityPovertyIssuesEconomicTalentStudentsCollegeDevelopmentEssentialsResearchOrganizationStrongerInnovationLocalsFundIntegrationSocial IssuesInnovativeResearchersEconomic DevelopmentLocal CommunitySocial Innovation
Author:Ed Holder
Create image

“I think it's important for people to say look, what does each party and each candidate have to offer for you. If you want a better future that is going to be reliant on making smart economic policies, compare my husband's eight years with Ronald Reagan's eight years. 23 million new jobs, more than seven million people lifted out of poverty.”

PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsLooksDoeImportantJobsPartyPovertyMillionsEconomicPolicyOffersHusbandSmartSevenEightCompareCandidatesMy HusbandBetter FutureNew JobEconomic Policy
Author:Hillary Clinton
Create image

“The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.”

PeopleThinkingFeelsMeanSpiritSocialPovertyCreativityMillionsEconomicIgnoranceRevolutionDiseaseIndiaLifetimeEdgesExtremesHarshEntrepreneurialLatentSocial RevolutionExtreme PovertyEntrepreneurial Spirit
Author:Manmohan Singh
Create image

“I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they are very vulnerable, but I see it in the fact that the economic institutional order of the world is associated with this very persistent poverty and that different institutional arrangements at the supranational level could stop and even reverse the slide towards ever-greater income disparities.”

PeopleWorldHumansDifferentEnoughFactsOrderLevelsPovertyGreaterRightsEconomicMereHuman RightsIncomeVulnerableReverseArrangementsPersistentSlidesViolationDisparityViolation Of Human Rights
Author:Thomas Pogge
Create image

“We should condemn as unjust a global economic order that leads to ever-increasing economic disparities - provided this effect is foreseeable and provided it is also avoidable through some alternative institutional design that would foreseeably lead to much less poverty and inequality. Those involved in designing or imposing the existing rules are collectively responsible for the resulting excess deprivations and human rights deficits.”

ShouldHumansOrderPovertyRightsEconomicEffectsDesignInvolvedResponsibleHuman RightsInequalityAlternativesExcessUnjustDeficitImposingDeprivationDisparityEconomic Order
Author:Thomas Pogge
Create image

“Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, extreme poverty, economic disparities, social injustice, war, and terrorism - these are the projection of a collective consciousness that's in disarray.”

WarNaturalConsciousnessPovertyEconomicModernChaosInjusticeTerrorismDisasterGlobal WarmingRelevantKatrinaNatural DisasterHurricane Katrina
Author:Deepak Chopra
Create image

“In India you would find people who belong to the 10 richest people in the entire world, and you would find people whose poverty levels are sub-Saharan in fact practically: people who would probably make less than a dollar a day or would only have enough for one meal. Now, to have these kinds of contrasts coexist, is something which boggles my mind. We have a country that is making great economic progress, a country that is making his presence felt all over the world, but at the same time, it is unable to deal with some of these fundamental contradictions in our economic evolution.”

PeopleWorldMindKindCountryEnoughPovertyProgressEconomicEvolutionContradictionContrastCoexist
Author:Cyril Shroff
Create image

“There are a lot of Egyptians who live below the poverty line and are preoccupied with meeting basic needs. Therefore, we have to create tangible benefits from nature conservation. Only through economic incentives will we convince people to protect habitats, wildlife, geological formations, cultural heritage sites, etc. We need local communities to cooperate with us, not against us!”

PeopleCommunityPovertyEconomicProtectMeetingsConvinceConservation
Author:Mindy Baha El Din
Create image

“Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals walk the streets as free men. What my music is about, and what - this from the riots in the streets of Greece and Spain to the people's uprisings in Egypt and Libya and Madison is about is holding those people accountable, those who are responsible for subverting the entire global economy and causing so much misery and then laughing about it with their, you know, clinking their champagne glasses on their yachts.”

PeopleMenPovertyLaughingEconomyEconomicCrimeMusic IsResponsibleMiseryGreeceRiotGlobal EconomyYacht
Author:Tom Morello
Create image

“I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.”

PeopleThinkingLongDifferentPovertyEconomicCircumstancesUneasy
Author:Daniel Woodrell
Create image

“Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally experience through the lives of friends, family, neighbors, colleagues. I'd venture to say it's a rare person in 2013 America who knows nobody who lost a job in the recession, or knows nobody whose home went underwater or who went into foreclosure.”

HomePovertyEconomicNeighborFamily Friends
Author:Sasha Abramsky
Create image

“Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos still experience far more unemployment than do whites and Asians, average wages are lower, and household wealth is lower. A smaller percentage of African Americans and Latinos attend, and complete, college, than is the case with whites and Asians, and a higher percentage end up in prison. All of these are indicators of massive disparities in opportunity, and these disparities are mirrored in poverty data.”

PastOpportunityWealthPovertyEconomicCollegePrisonCivil RightsAfrican AmericanLatino
Author:Sasha Abramsky
Create image

“It isn't easy for everyone in Germany to make ends meet through well-paid work in Germany. You have to have sufficient skills and work hard. And I also know that we have much too much poverty and inequality here. Still, our parents and grandparents built an incredibly prosperous and peaceful country. One shouldn't, of course, play down the degree to which this is dependent on our economic strength. The truth is that Moscow, Beijing and Washington have one thing in common: They don't value the European Union at all. They disregard it.”

CountryValuesEasyParentCommonPovertyEconomicHard WorkTruth IsPeacefulInequalityGrandparentProsperousEuropean Union
Author:Sigmar Gabriel
Create image

“The Democrat Party is threatened by people whose economic circumstances improve to the point that they do not need government first and foremost. That's a threat. But this happens when the U.S. economy is humming. There is a lot of upward mobility, and people leave the lower depths of poverty and start traversing a pathway through the middle class to the upper middle class, and as they leave, the Democrats have to replace them. That is what illegal immigration has been since 1965 when Ted Kennedy reintroduced the whole concept after 40 years of no immigration from 1921 to 1965.”

PeoplePartyPovertyEconomyEconomicCircumstancesThreatDemocratImmigrationMiddle ClassIllegal Immigration
Author:Rush Limbaugh
Create image

“I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.”

PeopleWantGivingYearsLongTwoHomeRememberWealthPovertyGoneEconomicBuildingProjectsCrisisCome UpRemoveTwo YearsHospitalsWipePhilippinesRemember MeMarcosEconomic Crisis
Author:Imelda Marcos
Create image

“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.”

WorldHumansValuesEvilLeftTermCommonMoralClassPovertyEconomicCrimeExampleBehaviorEconomicsGood And EvilDividedHuman BehaviorDividingMoral ValuesCitingValue SystemsEconomic Class
Author:Dennis Prager
Create image

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

PeopleMadeJobsIndividualStuffFreedomLibertyPovertyEconomicSecurityIndependenceHungryDictatorshipIndependence DayTrue FreedomIndividual FreedomEconomic FreedomPolitical IdeologyEconomic SecurityEconomic IndependenceTrue IndependenceIndividual Independence
Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Create image

“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”

MenGivingGovernmentPoorPovertyEconomicDependsDeterminationInstitutionsDemocraticEmploymentOur FutureIdleUnemploymentSoundness
Book:Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944
Create image

“Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.”

PeopleMenWorldIdeasCountrySeemsMightAbleYoungPovertyEconomicShapesMarriedIslamRageYoung ManDecentDeclineGood LivingDecent Life
Author:Salman Rushdie
Create image

“Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.”

TwoCountryTogetherFightingPoorPovertyEconomicInnovationEntrepreneurPursuitDevelopingLoanGlamorousChicDeveloping CountriesMicrofinance
Author:James Surowiecki
Create image

“We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the capitalistic experiment. Once we came to understand the simpl...truth that earth's resources were limited, in fact soon to run out, the whole capitalistic illusion fell to pieces. Those of us who spoke this truth were denounced as heretics, as enemies of the prevailing economic faith. Like religious Dissenters of an earlier day.”

EndsWholeFactsRunningEarthReligiousEnemyPovertyPiecesEconomicIllusionResourcesExperimentsFuelSpokesRefugeExhaustedYour FutureSeekersFamineSuppliesPrevailingHereticTerminal
Author:Thomas Pynchon
Create image

“But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.”

IfsShouldMindWellsIdeasStatesEasyChurchLinesForgetPovertyEconomyEconomicOfficeShould HaveVulnerabilityState Of MindOfferingUnemploymentOptimistShortcomingsUndoneHabitualSpiralsSlackerMeltdownsFree FoodStrivers
Book:Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Create image

“What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.”

KnowsYearsBelieveNextProcessResultsPovertyIssuesEconomicTalentDevelopmentEconomicsIncreaseTwentiesHungerProsperityBrilliantWorthwhileEconomistSpend TimeDiscussingTwenty OneTheoristsEconomic Prosperity
Author:Muhammad Yunus
Create image

“The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future.”

WorldLooksWarProblemReligiousPovertyEconomicPlanetsSolutionsCrisisInstantDividedGenocideEconomic CrisisReligious WarsLack Of Respect
Book:Aleph
Create image