Poverty Quotes

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]

In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for the sufferings of others.

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

India has to fight poverty, Pakistan too has to fight poverty, why don't we come together to fight poverty?

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.

The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.