Quotes of: Poverty Keyword

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Jessica Jackley

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

Jim Yong Kim

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Ernie Fletcher

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.

Will Oldham

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

King Hussein I

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Orhan Pamuk

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

Ginny Brown-Waite

Together we can remind them there are no excuses to sit back and watch the cycle of extreme poverty continue.

Auliq Ice

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Andrew Mitchell

The prosperity of humanity is in utter disparity with its clarity largely seen in wider poverty.

Anuj Somany

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

Love

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

William S. Burroughs

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Ted Turner

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

Poverty is a condition that resides in the heart . . . not in the wallet.

Begotten with Love: Every Family Has Its Story

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

Mario Monicelli

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.

Invincible

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

A Moveable Feast

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

Barbara Mikulski

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield