Poverty Quotes

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...

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.