Poverty Quotes

Poverty Quote of the day

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

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

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

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

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies - Poverty, unemployment.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

As long as we give room for domination and the dominators, there will be worries and worried people. Poverty and pestilence will live eternally in the country.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

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

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

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

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.