Poverty Quotes

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Water is the key to dealing with the twin challenges of poverty and growth.

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

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

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

Poverty is in separatism. Abundance is in unity.

I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!

For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.