#poverty

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#poverty

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#denies #earth #economics #embraces #enterprise

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#does #must #our #poverty #problems

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#competition #i #illiteracy #poverty #unemployment

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#avarice #luxury #many #poverty #some

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. ↗

— Ayrton Senna

#basic #breathe #chance #everyone #give

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving. ↗

— Peter Singer

#amount #anything #around #believe #children

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. ↗

— Adam Smith

#poor #poverty #real #their #tragedy

The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control over agriculture, was a reaction to the specific problems facing producers at that time. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#america #bill #control #facing #farm

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. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#elsewhere #greater #poor #poorer #poverty