Poverty Alleviation Quotes

We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country .... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.

The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.

Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

The poor are the very lifeblood of the left, attracting activists, supporting among the intelligentsia, and - perhaps most important - allowing the left to indulge in self-congratulation as people who 'care.' But, if they really cared, they would want to know what the facts are and what the actual consequences of their various nostrums are.

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.

Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on Poverty has cost us 70 % more than the total price tag for defeating both Germany and Japan in World War II, after adjusting for inflation. Many believe that Welfare has destroyed millions of families and cost a huge portion of our national wealth in the process.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Make the world better

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.

International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Islam does not command us to fight against other religions but against oppression and poverty.

Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.

It is not enough, for example, to acknowledge and respect every man's right to the means of subsistence if we do not strive to the best of our ability for a sufficient supply of what is necessary for his sustenance

The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at worst - an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.