Poverty And Society Quotes: top 42 famous quotes about Poverty And Society

Poverty And Society Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Poverty And Society quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket — Arthur Melvin Okun

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little. — Kenneth Minogue

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the administrators should not suck the blood of the poor. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him. — Henri Rousseau

Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily. — Martin Hopkins

The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.
These are called true stories. — Moonshine Noire

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? — Andy Grove

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon. — Martin Hopkins

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. — Henry George

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. — Aristotle.

In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All of society's problems which could be solved by money, were caused by money. — Heather Marsh

In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. To return — George Orwell

Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

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

taken Society and Economic Change, I assume?" Yes, but I assume you've never taken Poverty and Inequality. — Willa Thorne

Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society. — Peng Liyuan

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask? — Anthony Liccione

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society. — Anthony Biglan

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar — Henry David Thoreau

A society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty. — Pope Francis

All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance - all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring in this? — Leo Tolstoy

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived. — Margaret Mead

Rather than being about money or material possessions as such, poverty is about the inability to participate actively in society. — Peter Townsend

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty — Thabo Mbeki

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society. — Robert Kennedy

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty! — Pope Francis

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. — Charles Bukowski

As society advances the standard of poverty rises. — Theodore Parker

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. — Oscar Wilde

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society — Nathan Rosenberg

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus

Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man. — Kang Chol-Hwan

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams. — Novak Djokovic

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. — Charles Darwin

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed. — A.J. Quinnell