Poverty Quotes - Page 6

I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics.

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

You can't put money meant for the right course of action in the hands of criminals, rogues and thieves and expect to see positive changes or results.

As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains had found in garbage; politics and corruption, in which Asha placed her hopes; and education.

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

Poverty doesn't say so much about God as it says about us.

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.

Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland.

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.