Poverty Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love.

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

True poverty does not come from God.

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.