Angus Deaton Quotes

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

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

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

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's no honor either.

I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

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.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

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.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

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.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

When our economy is not growing, those least able to look after themselves are the first thrown overboard ...

Our time has experienced greater technological progress than ever existed before, and yet we are faced with the fact that world-wide poverty, hunger, death of children, unemployment, misery and the destruction of nature have not abated but rather to some extent increased. Many peoples are threatened with economic ruin, social disarray, political marginalization and national collapse.

Poverty breeds a lack of self reliance.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a hundred.

Individuals and families whose standards of living are shockingly low quite naturally feel that they have nothing to lose by championing Communism.