Bhumibol Adulyadej Quotes

Money can't buy poverty.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

Whatever people's backgrounds or values, a society where more and more people face a daily struggle to house, clothe and even feed themselves and their families cannot possibly be the answer.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

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

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Poverty affects people of all races.

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.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

I grew up poor.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

A shining city is perhaps all the President [Ronald Reagan] sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the shining city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, and more people who need help and can't find it.