Peter Singer Quotes

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many millions of people endure terrible economic and social deprivation, despite the incredible wealth all around them.

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

I grew up poor.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Poverty causes crime.

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the best way to understand it was to get close to it on the ground level.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. As kids, we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.