Poverty Line Quotes (10 quotes)

“Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: beggar, luxury, poverty, poverty-line, shyness

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“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“What do we mean by poverty? Not what Dickens or Blake or Mayhew meant. Today no one seriously expects to go hungry in England or to live without running water or medical care or even TV. Poverty has been redefined in industrial countries, so that anyone at the lower end of the income distribution is poor ex officio, as it were-poor by virtue of having less than the rich. And of course by this logic, the only way of eliminating poverty is by an egalitarian redistribution of wealth-even if the society as a whole were to become poorer as a result.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

tags: poverty, poverty-line, relative-poverty-and-wealth, squalor

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“If you are poor and go without food and clothes, don't hope for wealth in paradise, you are already forsaken”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

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“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“In India, as in other poor countries, we have a line that is invisible and abstract and yet more powerful and pervasive than anything the West or the Japanese have invented. It is called the poverty line. Above the poverty line are three meals a day. Below it is a spectrum that stretches all the way from 2.99 to zero meals. As familiar as a clothes-line, most people in India spend their entire lives trying to reach out beyond it. It is their greatest aspiration. If you are fortunate, if the gods smile and you are lucky, you may get a glimpse of it. You can’t see the line, you can’t touch it, and five hundred million people are trying to get to it.”
― Kiran Nagarkar, Ravan & Eddie

tags: india, indian-fiction, poverty-line

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“We would eventually get rid of poverty if there were no women or girls who are willing to sleep with men or boys who are poor.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: children, end-poverty, eugenics, make-poverty-history, poor, poverty, poverty-line, sex, sex-transmutation, sexual-transmutation

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“Poor people are generally a reminder that hard work can be ineffective.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: end-poverty, hard-work, hard-worker, hardworking, inequality, poor, poverty, poverty-alleviation, poverty-line, work-smart-not-hard

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