Poverty Quotes

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

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

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

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.

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.

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.

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

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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Poverty is in separatism. Abundance is in unity.

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.

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

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.'

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

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.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.

Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.