Quotes by category:Poverty

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment. by Abdallah II

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

poverty unemployment night

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneli... by Abigail Van Buren

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

Abigail Van Buren

poverty lonely loneliness

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

transcendental poverty glamour

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

heterosexuality-is poverty cost

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear... by Aesop

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

midst poverty fear

Better poverty without care, than riches with. by Aesop

Better poverty without care, than riches with.

riches poverty care

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf be... by Aga Khan IV

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

poverty bridges home

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Ahmed Ben Bella

misery poverty past

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

poverty hell earth

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

saudi-arabia poverty people

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

poverty simplicity

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

family-first poverty firsts

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to... by Albert Camus

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

values poverty solitude

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

luxury poverty sea

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence. by Alberto Fujimori

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Alberto Fujimori

poverty violence

It wasn't poverty that drove me on. by Aleksandr Kuprin

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

Aleksandr Kuprin

poverty

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

poverty tears firsts

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a... by Alexander Pope

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

poverty want world

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Alexander Smith

poverty desire men

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

Alexis De Veaux

poverty want school

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