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Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.
Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.
Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.
The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.
Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
There are so many kids in this country growing up in poverty, facing very, very hard challenges... We need resilience for all of them.
Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.
If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.
Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.
What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
If bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty, and I am not ready to become a poor man.
As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should be deprived of his ambitions.
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.
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.
Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.
We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.
I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.
Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
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.
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
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.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.
As a nation, there are many issues we don`t talk about, we just don`t talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty is one of those issues.
Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.