Quotes about Poverty
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Poverty doesn't make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate. Votes: 3
Anne MateerPoverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. Votes: 3
William HazlittWhen they think about Africa, they think about War, Poverty, Hunger and Diseases. Votes: 3
Unotjari Festus KavariPoverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people. Votes: 3
Don HeroldPoverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure! Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanPoverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old. Votes: 3
Luis Alberto UrreaPoverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. Votes: 3
Jean de la BruyerePoverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. Votes: 3
Anzia YezierskaPoverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. Votes: 3
Heinrich HeineEmpty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Votes: 2
Norman Vincent PealeAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. Votes: 2
James A. BaldwinIf a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. Votes: 2
John F. KennedyOne of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. Votes: 1
Chris Van HollenDivorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken. Votes: 1
Mike HuckabeeEarly marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty. Votes: 0
Helene D. GayleA Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER Votes: 0
Darynda JonesSometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty Votes: 0
Amartya SenPride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinEducation can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. Votes: 0
Christine GregoireLife, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful. Votes: 0
Ngugi wa Thiong'oHonduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme. Votes: 0
Elliott AbramsBorrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonCharity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Votes: 0
Muhammad YunusAs Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. Votes: 0
Martin LewisBy 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty. Votes: 0
Peter DiamandisToo often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices. Votes: 0
Nicholas KristofTraditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty. Votes: 0
Jacqueline NovogratzThe fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility. Votes: 0
Farid Al-Din AttarA religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it. Votes: 0
Ignatius of LoyolaYou can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty. Votes: 0
Stephen LeacockAll affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterThere is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner. Votes: 0
Shane ClaiborneSome years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won. Votes: 0
Ronald ReaganGrowing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children. Votes: 0
Santiago "Jimmy" MelladoGlobal poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference. Votes: 0
William J. ClintonThe unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth. Votes: 0
N. R. Narayana MurthyThe day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty. Votes: 0
Jaime EscalanteYou give your way out of poverty but you sacrifice your way to wealth. Votes: 0
McWilton ChikwenengereHave the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. Votes: 0
Anna Brownell JamesonOf all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest. Votes: 0
J. G. HollandIn other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIf poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Votes: 0
Jean de la Bruyerea call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin. Votes: 0
Sydney Biddle BarrowsUntil you are there, you might not understand the language and pains of poverty Votes: 0
Ikechukwu IzuakorI read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty. Votes: 0
Walter Inglis AndersonTo turn away a guest is poorest poverty;To bear with fools is mightiest might. Votes: 0
ThiruvalluvarBobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid. Votes: 0
Ronald ReaganSince the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy. Votes: 0
Bidzina IvanishviliModern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawHandouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might. Votes: 0
Leila JanahA rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others. Votes: 0
Jonah GoldbergIt is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth. Votes: 0
Michael Bassey JohnsonOur poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. Votes: 0
Joseph A. SchumpeterWhen I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. Votes: 0
Lyndon B. JohnsonAs covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. Votes: 0
Daniel DefoeThat is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. Votes: 0
George GissingThe first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty. Votes: 0
James WolfensohnThere is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.
Buffy Sainte-MarieBoth Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.
Michel ChossudovskyWhen poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?
Mary WollstonecraftShe who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
Samuel RichardsonFreedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.
Jacqueline NovogratzThe lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.
Michel de MontaigneIt is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
Seneca the YoungerHe who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!
Friedrich NietzscheThe wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
William Ralph IngeI have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.
Gro Harlem BrundtlandMicroloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.
Pierre OmidyarThe folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.
Edward BellamyPoverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.
Josh BillingsSelfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.
Miguel Angel RuizThe most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Napoleon HillWherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
Walter Savage LandorI've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.
Annie LennoxIn the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.
Patricia ArquetteTo discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
William BarrettThe fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.
David RolfThe richness of Godâs Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
Dietrich BonhoefferTruly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
Friedrich NietzscheThe great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
Friedrich NietzschePoverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
H. L. MenckenEducation is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.
Malala YousafzaiOur nation is rich and our people can be rich. 2014 elections is a fight against poverty.
Narendra ModiIt is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
Paramahansa YoganandaIf freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
Aneurin BevanWe should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty
Barack ObamaOne of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieOnly by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonHard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Thomas MalthusPoverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.
Barbara EhrenreichWe must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.
Dorothy DayThe truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.
Eliza GriswoldFirst, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.
Ginny Brown-WaitePeace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
Indira GandhiHard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.
Louis O. KelsoIf the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
Oscar WildeLike ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.
Ihara Saikakuthe blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.
Letitia Elizabeth LandonIndia is a functioning democracy - despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.
Manmohan SinghIn going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Oscar WildePoverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]
Immortal TechniqueI see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.
Mitt Romneythere are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ...
Nancy MitfordIf you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.
Napoleon HillEverywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.
Peter KropotkinWhen someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.
Santiago "Jimmy" MelladoSO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"
Abigail Van BurenLibraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.
Francis KeppelPoverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
George OrwellPoverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.
Helen KellerPoverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
PlatoOurs is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.
Ravi ZachariasI want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
Russell SimmonsAfter a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).
Warren FarrellTwo things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.
Ali ibn Abi TalibUnemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.
Barack ObamaPoverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.
Donald RichieWe adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.
Kailash SatyarthiPoverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.
Katie DavisEven in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
Ludwig van BeethovenIt was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.
Mother TeresaI spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.
P. J. O'RourkePoverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.
Paul SimonIdolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.
Paul WasherIf we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
Phillips BrooksWith one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.
Robert PollokPoverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.
Eliza Lynn LintonIf one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.
Jetsunma Ahkon LhamoHonest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out
Mark TwainI never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.
QuestloveOuter achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.
SangharakshitaThe proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
Oscar Wilde... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
Bertrand RussellBe not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.
Henry David ThoreauThe proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
Seneca the YoungerPoverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.
Shakti GawainPoor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
Oscar WildeThe intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.
Dan QuayleThe one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.
Ernest HemingwayThanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.
Fareed ZakariaI'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.
Hugo ChavezBeing born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.
Kevin HarringtonI am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
Marc AndreessenPoverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]
PlautusI will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.
Robert Anton WilsonThere are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.
Roger ChamberlainI cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
Sal AlbaneseThere is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.
Tom HiddlestonA proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
Aga Khan IVStupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.
Akong RinpocheIt could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.
Billy GrahamDesires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.
Dietrich BonhoefferLet's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty
Eartha KittThe hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
Franklin D. RooseveltPoverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust...
Megan LeeGold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
Nicolas Boileau-DespreauxThe two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Sophia LorenPoverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Benjamin FranklinPoverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.
D.E. StevensonWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick DouglassPoverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity
Jacqueline NovogratzPoverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
Jean PaulPoverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
Joseph AddisonOf the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.
JuvenalWe Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
PericlesRealism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.
Walter J. Phillips