Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from it. Yes, those living in poverty today will be hit first and the hardest, but we are all going to feel it and see it. We already are.
Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.
The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.
Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.
EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.
Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.
Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.
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.
The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.