Poverty Wealth Quotes

Poverty Wealth Quote of the day

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

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

The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.

Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.

Greed applied is prosperity realized". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

Christie: “Even if he is – aren’t you the one who’s always saying we shouldn’t trust the wealthy, that they became that way by walking on the backs of the poor?

Lack of money is no poverty.

Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.

You give your way out of poverty but you sacrifice your way to wealth.

The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose, ' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.

Certainly, the wealth of the rich is a consequence of the poverty of the poor. (Lori Altmann, p. 85)

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.