Destitute Quotes

If I`d seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I`d intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it`s your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.

(In the story, called) Judging Amy, ... In the deli, at the movies, at the mall, I don`t mind people recognizing me. But it is at the workplace where I hit a brick wall. ... They would think I was rich, and applying for the job as a publicity stunt. They didn`t understand that I was destitute.

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can`t get medical care or clean water.

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

Human beings have an infinite capacity for two things: giving and love. Do you think Mother Teresa ever ran out of love and care to give to the sick and the destitute? At nearly 85 years of age, and with a weak heart, she was still out there giving; traveling and speaking, caring and working as she had been every day since she was a novice. That's because giving nourishes and replenishes the giver. Taking depletes us and burns us out.