Poverty Quotes

We must arm ourselves with patience and wisdom and listen to the poor what they want. This is the best way to avoid the trap of ignorance, ideology and inertia on our side.

I love living in the ghetto!" #PoorMindSet

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to ask alms of a stranger when you've never done it before, what a psychological barrier separates the honest man from the panhandler. ("Dusk To Dawn")

Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.

Being an altruist I have an urge in mylife to help poor's but im not Bill Gates

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle

The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.

The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.

I'd rather be poor to my bones than be rich with your money, that is like a trigger, ready to be pulled in my face.

Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.

Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is?

One of the most lucrative privileges of an empty handed is the easiness to embrace wholeheartedly!

When the purse becomes empty, the mind becomes full of issues.

What you give today you get tomorrow.

Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts.

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

Rich peoples kind words doesn't fill up the empty stomach of poor people

When we spend time with people who live in extreme poverty, and we listen to their stories, it creates dignity and connectedness - something they usually lack.

Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.

Bed is the poor man's opera.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poverty - one thing money can't buy.

The rich would have to eat money but luckily the poor provide food.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

There is no scandal like rags nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.

The poor will always be with you.

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.

As poor as a church mouse.

Poverty is no sin.

O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!

The poor always ye have with you.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor.

Where there is poverty, there will be destruction and exploitation by the corporations and governments benefitting from destroying our rainforests and trafficking wildlife.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is no deficit in human resources - it is a deficit in human will.