#overt

On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have. ↗

— David Cameron

#areas #ask #benefits #dependency #extent

I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#back #because #face #go #good

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again. ↗

— Ruth First

#apartheid #back #called #cities #drive

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ↗

— Confucius

#badly #country #governed #poverty #something

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

#been #life #mere #more #our

Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love them; to enlarge their horizon to a magnificent extent; to lavish upon them education in every shape; to set them an example of labor, and never of indolence; to lessen the weight of the individual burden by increasing the notion of the universal aim; to limit poverty without limiting wealth; to create vast fields of public and popular activity; to have, like Briareus, a hundred hands to stretch out on all sides to the crushed and the weak; to employ the collective power in the grand task of opening workshops for every arm, schools for every aptitude, and laboratories for every intellect; to increase wages, diminish toil, and balance the debit and credit--that is to say, proportion enjoyment to effort, and supply to demand; in a word, to evolve from the social machine, on behalf of those who suffer and those who are ignorant, more light and more comfort, is (and sympathetic souls must not forget it) the first of brotherly obligations, and (let egotistic hearts learn the fact) the first of political necessities. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#poverty-alleviation #education

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. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#bringing #considerably #destroying #down #leave

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty. ↗

— David Korten

#crises #debt #happened #improvements #increased

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#education #individuals #into #lift #out

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth. ↗

— Hesiod

#confidence #either #false #greatly #harms