Pastoral Resources

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Poverty is unnecessary.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.