Poverty Quotes

Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.

It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia.

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.

The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.

Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

We know what war means, and we know what poverty means. We need to develop a better model for reaching out to the world than we have.

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

Do we have the will to make poverty history?

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.