Poverty Quotes

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Complaint is poverty.

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.

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.

a call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

My vision for the future? ... a world completely free from 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.

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

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

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

Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

You're either in a position of abundance or you're in a position of poverty. Now, that's every area of your life. That's not just financially.

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

We must start talking differently about poverty--and start doing something differently.

Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded for gold.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty

I know what poverty is.

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again.

Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.