Samuel Johnson Quotes

Poverty Corrodes Freedom

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.

… mankind will no longer passively submit to crushing poverty with its effects of death, disease, and decline.

Poverty demoralizes.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon all branches of human activity.

If poverty was an easy problem to solve, it would have been solved a long time ago.

Poverty for a female, went beyond teh wretchedness of having no money.

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

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.