#poverty

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#asia #athens #beauty #confronted #europe

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. ↗

— George Farquhar

#crime #like #nor #poverty #rags

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#benefit #choices #family #find #great

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

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

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy. ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

#citizens #government #insulated #look #need

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#am #cannot #country #eradicate #forward

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind. ↗

— George Gilder

#less #mind #poverty #real #state

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families. ↗

— George Gilder

#any #families #first #male #poor

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

#day #goal #god #help #nation