Poverty Quotes

The corporate media spends a lot of time covering the lifestyles of the rich and the famous, but not...

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or...

And I did work out something: that the rich of the earth indeed create misery, but they cannot bear ...

What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the lo...

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even pov...

They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much...

The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives u...

The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are “those people.” The truth is…we ...

Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But h...

people who eat 3 meals a day throughout lifehave never reallytastedFood...

Aaron was wearing a T-shirt that was practically transparent with washing and sweatpants with a hole...

Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row.""There are some real weirdos down t...

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowe...

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our...

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as...

... I have always thought of Christmas-time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasa...

I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w...

A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, b...

The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and ...

A man may live to be as old as Methuselah,’ said Mr. Filer, ‘and may labour all his life for the ben...

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for...

Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w...

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, ...

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming...

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with...

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science...

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental reali...

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

The Poverty Tour provided the opportunity to meet many people who had been living paycheck to payche...

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a chil...

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass des...

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material ...

The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only...

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving p...

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a t...

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the stat...

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hi...

We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be...

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggl...

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principl...

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on...

The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are a...

While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there ...

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with...

There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why...

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest ca...

And St. Francis added: "My dear and beloved Brother, the treasure of blessed poverty is so very prec...

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the car...

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him su...

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern soci...

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes th...

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the ...

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you...

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a te...

I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily ri...

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

It is a hard thing for a rich man to grow poor; but it is an awful thing for him to grow dishonest, ...

Poverty is spiritual halitosis.

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possession...

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

You don't want to have any pity on these here tramps – scum, they are. You don't want to judge them ...

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the ...

A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely withou...

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed...

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fund...

For if in careless summer daysIn groves of Ashtaroth we whored,Repentant now, when winds blow cold,W...

Twenty million people are underfed but literally everyone in England has access to a radio. What we ...

The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, fou...

Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread...

I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hu...

Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance ...

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

There were office-worn gents with yellow faces, bent backs, and one shoulder set slightly higher tha...