Poverty Quotes

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

Every literate woman is a victory over poverty

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

As a nation, there are many issues we don't talk about, we just don't talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty is one of those issues.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.