Oscar Wilde Quotes

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

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.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand.

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

Society’s willingness to provide for the poor among them increases when the standard of living is advancing.