Top Poverty Quotes

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty...

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.

Poverty Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

(n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.

The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless c...

In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure of society is arranged so that only...

Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.

The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

The print was an old one made from a negative taken in the 1960’s of her parents in Sydney Mines, dancing with thrilled, excited expressions on their faces, in front of a classic car that had been a w...

Millennials: We lost the genetic lottery. We graduated high school into terrorist attacks and wars. We graduated college into a recession and mounds of debt. We will never acquire the financial cushio...

At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each one grander than the last, till he ends in building one more magnificent than all, or w...

After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.

If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever.

One of the major destruction of man is distraction

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.

For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by...

How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.