Poverty Quotes

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.