Poverty Quotes

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.

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.

Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

I offer you what I have my Poverty

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty. It makes them resentful.

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

Broke is normal. Why be normal?

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?