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Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.
There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.
Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.
Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.
Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.
Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.
We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.
The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.
Making sure that mothers are educated means we can lift more people out of poverty and build a more inclusive and sustainable society.
Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.
There are so many kids in this country growing up in poverty, facing very, very hard challenges... We need resilience for all of them.
If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.
Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should be deprived of his ambitions.
Left unchecked, climate change risks not only making the poorest poorer, but pulling the emerging middle classes back into poverty, too.
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
If bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty, and I am not ready to become a poor man.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.
Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.
Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
As a nation, there are many issues we don`t talk about, we just don`t talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty is one of those issues.
Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.
The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.
The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.