Poverty Quotes

This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultural.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Affluence creates poverty.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty for all.

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

Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see the world through your fears, poverty multiplies all around you.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

Proper prospecting prevents poverty.