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Poverty Quotes

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Corruption Poverty Attention Cancer

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

Kathleen Blanco

Government End Solution Poverty Down

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Motivational Life My Life Poverty

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

Simplicity Poverty Connection Place

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Rich Poverty Fair Who Made He

Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Women People Poverty Loan Size Out

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Life Good Good Old Days Poverty Old

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Happiness Poverty Wealth Hard Tell

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation.

Growth Poverty Wealth Dream Creation

Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.

Impact Poverty No Regrets Try Going

I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam.

Children Child Poverty Decade Years

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

People World Poverty Down Living

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

City Rich Poverty Poor Rule Greater

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Francis of Assisi

World Poverty Holy Cares Avarice

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

Money Poverty You Say Buy Options

You know there's problems - you can see all the poverty and so on - but it's quite another matter to know what you can do about it.

Problems Poverty You Know Matter

We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions.

Joseph Pulitzer

Power Great Government Poverty Want

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.

World End Poverty Way Ignorant More

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

Children Great Parents Poverty Dirt

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Me Impossible Think Poverty Goal

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.

Decision Poverty Play Actor Going

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

Eduardo Galeano

Suffering America Poverty Year Three

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

Live World Poverty Why Reason

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Herbert A. Simon

Poverty Attention Information Wealth

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