Poverty Quotes

Affluence creates poverty.

Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the childre...

All this is simply to say that all life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of ...

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as N...

We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will w...

[If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for ...

Money can't buy poverty.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry,...

You can't eat straight A's.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color....

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at...

The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of...

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only b...

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beach...

[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the...

We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against pover...

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free...

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger,...

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world ...

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of la...

The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and unca...

Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes ...

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our soc...

I’m encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, ra...

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chai...

Poverty is unnecessary.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abjec...

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid rec...

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they ar...

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambi...

I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue...

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Deve...

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that br...

When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her...

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it...

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relat...

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex phy...

UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women...

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They...

To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inc...

Every morning, when people are getting up in the tent, the babies are crying, people are pushing eac...

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the of...

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanlines...

The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For who...

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo...

Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hope...

If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.

There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. M...

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a f...

You did not die when you were drawing public assistance money, but you certainly did not remain aliv...

The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institut...

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like...

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to eman...

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can gr...

But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems...

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is ne...

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, compri...

Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself...

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to erad...

Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to G...

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves...

God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regard...

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regard...

Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in orde...

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-asse...

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the admini...

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. Fa...

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy ...

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not ...

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one ...

Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.

At least ten times as many people died from preventable, poverty-related diseases on September 11, 2...

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a ...

No doubt we instinctively prefer to help those who are close to us. Few could stand by and watch a c...

First premise: If we can prevent something bad without sacrificing anything of comparable significan...

In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and internati...

A majority of people in these surveys also said that America gives too much aid--but when they were ...

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Ou...

Let's think of that moment when a woman washed the feet of Jesus with the nard, so expensive: it is ...

Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. Al...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call ...

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of sho...

Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So m...

Then, left alone, shivering, I happened to glance up. I stood, I froze, blinking up through the drif...