Poverty Quotes

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

Money can't buy poverty.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Poverty is just a state of mind.

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.