“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.” LongEndsPainLastsMovingUsedGrowsAttentionPovertySunToo MuchShrinksUnbearableDaylightExposingDormantSqualor Author:Gabrielle Roy
“Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.” WorldWayNeedsLooksWarEnoughBigsTurnsCausesBornPoorEffortPovertyToo MuchCrimeThis WorldIgnoranceMirrorsSelfishIgnorantMysteriousImpulseDamageCivilizedThinkerBarbaricCauses Of PovertyDeep Thinker Book:Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays Source: Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays
“we're focusing too much energy on the symptom rather than the disease: Our real enemy is poverty, not welfare.” RealEnergyEnemyPovertyToo MuchDiseaseWelfareSymptoms Author:Cathy McMorris Rodgers
“There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what we really need, and to let go of that which we cannot hold in caring awareness. We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.” NeedsMayBookFormUnderstandingNumbersPovertyLearningToo MuchAwarenessLetting GoCaring Author:Gunilla Brodde Norris
“It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.” PeopleWorldWayCountryEnoughDiesPoorLeaderPovertyToo MuchFailingCostSurvivalTradeBasicsEnding PovertyPoor Countries Author:Edward de Bono
“So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.” PovertyToo MuchTalentMissingLimitsMargins Author:Jesse Jackson