- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty Quotes
On hardship, pretense, and the thin line between struggle and ruin.
These quotes describe poverty as something felt rather than just discussed—its nearness to wealth in some places, the pretense people keep up to hide it, and the social programs built to hold it back. See our poverty slogans for another angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Mexico, wealth and poverty live next to each other and are cordial with each other - in my experience.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing about universal free school meals is that they would remove one of the embarrassing signals, easily picked up by children's supersensitive antennae, of family poverty.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world.
- Ample
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- Nov 07, 2020
While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020