World Poverty Quotes
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World Poverty Quotes & Sayings
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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
— Michael Harrington
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
— Nelson Mandela
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
— George C. Marshall
Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is?
— Moutasem Algharati
The greatest poverty is not to liveIn a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair. — Wallace Stevens
I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.
— Jim Yong Kim
The Other World? Yes, there is the Other World: Go to the districts of the poor people, you will find the Other World, the World of Poverty!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
— Gijs De Vries
Power engenders the evil-minded who ill-treat the needy in all parts of the world.
— Sylvia Iparraguirre
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
— Hedy Lamarr
If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.
— Jodie Evans
Poverty is a curse, it covers everything good inside of you from the outside world and gives you only one name called humiliation.
— Tim I. Gurung
Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
— Richard Dawkins
Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.
— Peter Thomas Bauer
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime
— Christian Nestell Bovee
In a world of universal povertyThe philosophers alone will be fat
Against the autumn winds
In an autumn that will be perpetual. — Wallace Stevens
Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?
— Arundhati Roy
Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.
— Anthony Burgess
Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
— Anne M. Mulcahy
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery.
— Auliq Ice
No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
— Shane Claiborne
Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight") — Cornell Woolrich
For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do
— Fulton J. Sheen
We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.
— Jeremy Corbyn
When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.
— Klaus Schwab
If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery; then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world
— M.F. Moonzajer
Someone once asked Mother Teresa how she dealt with world poverty. Do you know what she said? 'You do the thing that's in front of you.
— Corban Addison
My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from poverty.
— Muhammad Yunus
The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
— Barack Obama
You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.
— Hans Rosling
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.
— Edward Bellamy
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.
— Adora Svitak
The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?
— Anthony Liccione
If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.
— Muhammad Yunus
We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.
— Jeremiah Wright
Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.
— Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.
— Michel Chossudovsky
Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.
— Anna Deavere Smith
The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live
— Agona Apell
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
— Oliver Goldsmith
In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.
— Fidel Castro
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
— John F. Kennedy
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!
— Muhammad Yunus
All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure.
— Billy Graham
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
— Francis Of Assisi
I shall not accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need.
— Peace Pilgrim
The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.
— Jose Andres
In this world there is one thing that is more dangerous and scary than a tiger ...
and that is poverty and hunger. — Raj Kapoor
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
— Eduardo Galeano
That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.
— Sherman Alexie
World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire— Nelly Sachs
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
— Carolyn Wheat
As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.
— Martin Luther
Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.
— Nelson Mandela
The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it.
— Auliq Ice
The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
— Bertrand Russell
Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
— George Soros
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough.
— M.F. Moonzajer
In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
— Lester R. Brown
The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.
— Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!
— Alice Walker
