Poverty Quotes · Page 52

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

— Kofi Annan

When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets

— Anonymous

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

— Leila Janah

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

— Pam Grier

“If we want to stop poverty in the world, education is the key!”

— Nina52

Two things destroy people : fear of poverty and seeking for fanciful honors

— Anonymous

“So because you are converting it, you are grabbing back your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

— Thomas Malthus

As a person of color, I feel like I'm socialized to feel like a remnant of poverty or something primitive, and I…

— Indya Moore

All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate peoples into a…

— Pope Clement VIII

“Disease is certainly not a sin. And poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God’s work…

— Katie J. Davis

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right,…

— Muhammad Yunus

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and…

— Pope Francis

If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of…

— Melinda Gates

“To measure your time management you must access yourself by how many products you were able to produce on that particular day,…

— Sunday Adelaja

Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and…

— Eric Hoffer

Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful…

— Alan Hassenfeld

“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now.…

— Suzy Kassem

Raising the minimum wage may poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the American Dream. And…

— Marco Rubio

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and…

— Barack Obama

People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual…

— Harold Pinter

I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place…

— Muhammad Yunus

“Look Below and You'll feel Rich, Look Above and You'll feel Poor”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

— Richard Sibbes

At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.

— Gerald Chertavian

I spent almost 25 years as a foreign correspondent, and the world's primary problem is poverty.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.

— Guy Standing

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

— Stephen Hawking

“The tradition of going to church every day of the week is not an indicator of greatness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

— Imelda Marcos

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

— Angela Rayner

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

— Anonymous

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

— Dante Alighieri

I'm poor just like everybody else. If someone kidnaps me, they're getting nothing but a candy, a gum.

— Jessica Andrade

“The saddest thing in life is to see people suffer from hunger and POVERTY in a world of PLENTY.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

— Mother Teresa

“Poverty of character is not a personality flaw,its is the bankruptcy of morals”

— Bluenscottish

Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.

— Andrew Mwenda