Poverty Quotes

Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

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

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Poverty is unnecessary.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

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

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.

Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.