#poverty

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#cutting #first #global #goal #half

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#certain #consequences #deterrent #effect #factor

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#opposite #people #poverty #some #some people

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice. ↗

— Joan Chen

#china #could #enough #had #hunger

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#begs #bespeaks #bread #daily #daily bread

Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#group #hispanic #largest #make #now

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#anything #around #even #find #laughter

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#evil #poverty #root #snares #worst

In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had- A Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up it's feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#happiness #poverty #imagination

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#mind #poverty #intelligence