Quotes of: Extreme-poverty Keyword

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Without Feathers

As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

Jennifer Gilmore

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Edward Gibbon

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

Alfred Marshall

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Joseph Stiglitz

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

Martin H. Fischer

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

Steven Soderbergh

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Kofi Annan

Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.

Robert Casey

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Samuel Johnson

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Jim Carrey

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Michael Franti

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Henri Nouwen

In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

Bertrand Piccard

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Raoul Vaneigem

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Claude Levi-Strauss

I've seen poverty & I can assure you that it's 'too dark' (Black) in colour.

Cedric Namedi Mathuthe

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Charles Peguy

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

John Burns

The fastest and cheapest way to eradicate poverty is not by giving food but by giving hope, love, and education.

Debasish Mridha