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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty.
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts
It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.
The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.
Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.
I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.
I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.
Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply loved.
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.
So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.
It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
A job is the best cure for poverty, and that's why economic development and job creation has been my principle focus.
Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.
We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?
I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.
Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.
No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.
Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
The typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty: it's someone who has a cash flow problem.
Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.