Poverty Quotes

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

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

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

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

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.

From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism.

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

A lot of kids spent more time out of school than in, but I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.

Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

The policies being promoted are insane... If you believe energy poverty is a good thing, you should support controls on carbon emissions. But most of the world disagrees with that.

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.

Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.

Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.