Poverty Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.

Believe in poverty and you will be poor. Believe in wealth and you will be rich. Believe in love and you will have love. Believe in health and you will be healthy.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.