Paulo Coelho Quotes

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us.

I've been traveling a lot, and I'm seeing a lot of desperation everywhere in America. A lot of sad desperation.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

I had to steal to survive.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

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

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.