The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.
You lose your manners when you're poor.
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.
Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.
What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?
The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam War. The line that keeps running through my mind is the line I never spoke: "I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral. "
Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.
Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.
[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty.
Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!
I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.
The # poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.
