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Poverty

«The broad highway to poverty and need - Is, much to build and many mouths to feed»
Author: Acilius | About: Poverty | Keywords: mouths
«There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.»
Author: Andrew Cuomo | About: Poverty | Keywords: poverty, skirmish, There was
«The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever.Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles.The mystery of India, say Indologists.»
«The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them»
Author: Laing Hancock | About: Poverty
«The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty»
Author: Nelson Rockefeller (Vice President) | About: Poverty | Keywords: farmers
«They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?»
«The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats hen when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it»
Author: Walter Raleigh, Sr. | About: Poverty, Wealth | Keywords: eats, hen, pleases, rich man
«The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.»
«There is something about poverty that smells like death.»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston (Writer) | About: Poverty | Keywords: smells
«The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.»
Author: Seneca | About: Poverty, Wealth