Poverty Quotes

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...

What does hanging on a cross for twenty-four hours mean to a man who has no children,' I said, 'espe...

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructu...

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else...

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is...

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may ...

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of na...

the larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private...

Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and pr...

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending dis...

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticism...

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures a...

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it...

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothi...

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy ...

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from...

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemploymen...

P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class ...

Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the lik...

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and...

Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations a...

A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. No...

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring pros...

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of we...

Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the grea...

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young peopl...

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no ...

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesu...

Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon't be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will sha...

A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It ...

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our he...

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know no...

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and ...

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It...

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

The essential difference between rich societies and poor societies does not stem from any greater ef...

Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mindis free of society. One must become poor...

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where t...

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result...

The walls were chipped and needed paint. The windows were mostly okay but one pane was blocked with ...

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from ...

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.

I hate what G.P. calls the New People, the new class people with their cars and their money and thei...

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses a...

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - ...

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer,...

No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty;...

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishme...

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yiel...

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ide...

Why they were loaded with bags of beans and peas and anything else they happened to pick up when the...

...we so resented that asshole up there talking talking talking taking up the entire assembly expect...

The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might beco...

The world went on. People left and people died and people went to memorial services and put orange b...

The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politic...

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life...

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...

The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing...

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed cer...

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of red...

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out...