Quotes with poverty-stricken

Quotes 161 till 180 of 196.

  • Bobby Ghosh There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • George Farquhar There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Joe E. Lewis There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Begum Aga Khan This Clash of Civilizations has led to a Clash of Religions, leading in turn to war, terror and extreme poverty.
    International Business and Leadership Symposium address
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Samuel Johnson This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Herbert Hoover We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Carl Honore We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • James Reston Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
    James Reston
    In Holland born, American journalist (1909 - 1995)
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  • Sean O'Casey Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Walt Whitman What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Abbe Pierre What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Bill Gates What if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Mkapa When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.
    At the United Nations 60th summit, 2005-09-16
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Barney Frank When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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