Poverty. . . It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.
Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
The # poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that. " Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [. . . ] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.
The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world.
What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians.
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths this century of perhaps 100 million people. Against that doctrine was set a contrary, conservative belief in a law-governed liberty. It was this view which triumphed with the crumbling of the Berlin Wall. Since then, the Left has sought rehabilitation by distancing itself from its past.
If you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.
There is no peace in poverty
From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.
The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.
Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.