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Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.
There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.
Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.
Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
there is no such thing as poverty; only the absence of wealth (Jacobs, 1969; and see Piachaud, 2002
Poverty is more than a material experience; it's a psychological state as well, one that is infused with anxiety. And decision-making is very complex because every decision you make has an impact on your future and survival.
The poor lack much, the greedy everything.
No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.
They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.
Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness.
Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.
People with a poverty mindset remain poor and usually it is because of the fears in their mind. They tie up their energy in with the lack of money.
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
Nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.
Those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible.
Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.
In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.
Poverty is a curse, it covers everything good inside of you from the outside world and gives you only one name called humiliation.
Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.
The poor are only they who feel poor.
The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.
Rather than being about money or material possessions as such, poverty is about the inability to participate actively in society.
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.
Oh my son, so poor in doing the right things, so rich in doing the wrong things! What great poverty it is to be so rich!
Poverty that is learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential peripheries of life. Theoretical poverty is of no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, the poor, the sick, in children.
Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mind
is free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there is
no seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inward
poverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all
Poverty calls us to sow hope ... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.
If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.
Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
It's so dreadful to be poor!
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!
Poverty is not a circumstance, it's an attitude.
Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to be the mark of lack of ability or lack of ambition.I am not deficient in either of these qualities!
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
Poverty is being single.
Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.
My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.
As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
Poverty is the curse of ancient but numerous lineages.
Poor people have poor habits.
I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Most poverty is a lack of opportunity.
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.
Haiti is in desperate poverty.
Oh, poverty parts good company.
Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them.
Poverty is a condition that resides in the heart ... not in the wallet.
I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.
at rude variance with the poverty of its surroundings.
For the poor, the economic is spiritual.
Poors are Gift of Rich And Politics
Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night.
Poverty - the one thing money can't buy
Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.
Blessed is the one who considers the poor!
Who, being loved, is poor?
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
Poverty is everywhere, Zarish. People should have the courage to get out of the vicious circle of it.
When you've been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you're even happy, because at least you've got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.
To be poor is to suffer. It's the kind of suffering that freezes the heart stone cold.
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.
We are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by luxuries ... for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.
Poverty is a human-engineered product per excellence. It results primarily from inequitable distribution of national revenues coupled with escalating levels of corruption and mismanagement of national resources.
Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.
Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.
Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread.
It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandoned, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head.
Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.
We must start talking differently about poverty
and start doing something differently.
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.
There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age ... The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
Every condition exists," Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, "simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum." Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.
The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
Poverty comes from the poverty of positive thoughts and creative ideas.
Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons.