Moral Poverty Quotes

All the celebrated technological achievements of progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the twentieth century’s moral poverty, which no one could have imagined even as late as the nineteenth century.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

To kill [children in the womb] makes us all the poorer, insensitive, calloused and jaded.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the poorest. I do not say legal or illegal, but I think that no human hand should be raised to kill life, since life is God's life in us, even in an unborn child.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

Poverty and immorality are not synonymous.