Poverty Quotes

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

Grind the faces of the poor.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

we are slaves to the cost of living.

Like so many liberal icons, Marx seldom bathed and left his wife and children in poverty. As Schlafly says, no wonder liberal women think men are pigs: Their men are pigs.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

I believe that the war against terrorism and the war against poverty in these times of turmoil go together. So you - when you fight one, you have to fight the other.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

I saw people rise out of poverty right in front of me. ... It made me believe that the market was the most powerful tool for change that we could hope to have.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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

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

Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.