#pov

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#poverty #rich #socialism

I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #beauty #creation #creativity #credit

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#alleviating #also #am #among #believe

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#because #believe #competitors #create #despair

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#country #enough #families #i #job

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#development #first #first law #law #overall

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together. ↗

— Marc Forne Molne

#fight #human #ill #inevitable #poverty

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#easily #goods #impossible #poverty #soul

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. ↗

— Roger Moore

#cease #course #extreme #extreme poverty #frustrated

India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#art #city #civilization #creativity #daily