The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
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.
Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto pre-existing inequalities, high levels of poverty, or even disaster, urban fragility increases exponentially, making it harder to absorb the shocks of warfare.
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty rates and higher crime rates than they did before.
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
I'm the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a family of social enterprises - Samasource, Samahope and SamaUSA - that are working to alleviate poverty by connecting the global community to opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and here in the U.S.
I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.
I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.
I always like to say, Bill Clinton created more millionaires and billionaires than any president, but you know what, more people moved out of poverty. Middle-class income - all-time high.
What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
I'm always suspicious when a guy takes his date on a walk, because it reeks of poverty and an inability to plan.
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
