Top 38 Culture Of Poverty Quotes
#1. A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in poverty. People don't know how different it is over there.
Wiz Khalifa
#3. There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#4. She missed
without knowing what she missed
paints and crayons
Toni Morrison
#5. The big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition.
Barack Obama
#6. ObamaCare is creating nothing but misery for everybody.
Greg Gutfeld
#7. It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.
Hans Hofmann
#8. There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#9. People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
Brian Friel
#10. How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#11. The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.
Charlie Munger
#12. Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling that you have no culture, because you've been torn between cultures, between incompatible symbols. How can you exist when you don't know where you are?
Muriel Barbery
#13. Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.
Terry Wogan
#14. I will never to the end of my days ever begin to understand my fellow human beings.
Jack Higgins
#16. Even though his voice kept its squeakiness, he never forgot to hold his head high. Beckett had paid dearly to defend him, so he made it count.
Debra Anastasia
#18. As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.
Anatoly Karpov
#19. I don't, when I think of a city, think of these people, people with very little who are content with that. That is, I think about poverty and culture and traffic and pollution and crime...
Jon Chopan
#20. War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It's going to take the redesign of our culture and values.
Jacque Fresco
#21. Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
John Howard Griffin
#22. I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable.
Sean Kingston
#23. Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
Edward Young
#24. But an attentive researcher
like you
might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions.
Katherine Howe
#25. Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
Adam Davidson
#26. Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous superstition instead of coming into the light of Christianity and assimilating into Christian culture.
Bryan Fischer
#27. A culture that holds people back should and can be changed ...
Muhammad Yunus
#28. I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#29. There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.
Lawrence Wright
#30. All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.
Leo Tolstoy
#31. I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.
Vijay Singh
#32. Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
#33. If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.
Marco Rubio
#34. It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is found in our culture. It is instead the sign of a certain conceptual poverty.
Pierre Clastres
#35. The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
Al Franken
#36. Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.
Dambisa Moyo
#37. Enough," Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. "I'm sorry, is this the part where I fall to my knees and shiver in fear, Your Furriness? Silly me, I didn't get the memo.
Ilona Andrews
#38. Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
David Sarnoff
