Poverty Quotations..

• For families living in extreme poverty, who struggle each day and whose children are placed in care for economic and social reasons, this could be considered a joke. We could certainly have a better quality of life by, for example, spending a night at the opera.
  Jose Manuel Barroso # Family, Poverty, Challenging, Economic, Quality, Life Quotes
• As a politician, however, I am ashamed to speak of poverty eradication in such terms. I see clearly that the motivation has weakened with regard to the initial objective of eradicating poverty.
  Jose Manuel Barroso # Poverty, Problems, World, Political Quotes
• Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".
  Silvio Berlusconi # Poverty, Salary, Money, Learning, Encouragement Quotes
• PEOPLE are experience rich and theory poor. People who are busy doing things as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.
  Malcolm Gladwell # Experience, Rich, Poverty, Opportunity, Action, Learning Quotes
• It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
  Ray Kroc # Rich, Poverty, Important, Truth Quotes
• Despite my achievements, I can still remember poverty.
  Li Ka Shing # Achievement, Poverty Quotes
• The rich ... divide with the poor the produce of all their improvements. They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal proportions among all its inhabitants.
  Adam Smith # Rich, Poverty, Life Quotes
• Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
  Adam Smith # Government, Property, Rich, Poverty, Economic, Politics Quotes
• Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
  Joseph Stalin # People, Rich, Poverty Quotes
• It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
  Mother Teresa # Poverty, Death, Power, Life, Destiny Quotes
• I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
  Oprah Winfrey # Thinking, Self, Poverty, Responsibility, Good Quotes

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