Poverty Quotes

Broke is normal. Why be normal?

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.

Poverty is a great equalizer

Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

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

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

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.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

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

Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty