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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
— Harry Browne
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
— George C. Marshall
As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.
— James Reston Jr.
Part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.
— Anna Quindlen
Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.
— Narendra Modi
Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
— Indira Gandhi
Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.
— Max Brooks
We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
— Tom Lehrer
The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.
These are called true stories. — Moonshine Noire
These are called true stories. — Moonshine Noire
We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won
— Ronald Reagan
Now, where are [Mexican illegal immigrants] fleeing from? Mostly from Central America, where they're fleeing from the results of our policies.
— Noam Chomsky
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.
— Eberhard Arnold
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
— Jacque Fresco
Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.
— Akong Rinpoche
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
— Nicolas Sarkozy
For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
— Rand Paul
The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.
— Narendra Modi
Poverty and War have no excuse.
— Vanna Bonta
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire
— Nelly Sachs
— Nelly Sachs
If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?
— Preston Sturges
Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.
— Shane Claiborne
For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
— Charles B. Rangel
The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
— Ted Turner
There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.
— Ram Dass
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
— Muhammad Ali
As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.
Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear. — Zarina Bibi
Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear. — Zarina Bibi
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.
— Trevor Noah
Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
— Andrew Young
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.
— Aminatta Forna
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
— Jennifer Gilmore
We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.
— Narendra Modi
If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!
— Harry Browne
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
— Isabel Allende
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
— O. Henry
How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?
— Billy Graham
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Mindful consumption is the way out of our difficulties, not just our personal difficulties, but also the way out of war, poverty, and climate crisis.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
— Ban Ki-moon
There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.
— Lenny Bruce
We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise
— Jack Kemp