Poverty Quotes · Page 56

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

— Lewis Thompson Preston

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

— Dorothy Day

If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves.

— Scott Aaronson

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

— Muhammad Yunus

The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.

— Victor Hugo

“Knowledge is wealth, wisdom is treasure, understanding is riches, and ignorance is poverty.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?"

— Muhammad Yunus

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

— Charles Lamb

All too easily I have had people dismiss food poverty as an affliction of the workless and idle, insinuating that it is…

— Luciana Berger

Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest…

— Bill McKibben

The wealthy don't cry over the fact that they are wealthy as long as the poor cry about the poverty that surrounds…

— Morph Vishn

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

We live in a country with a vast majority of people below the poverty line. Our natural resources are limited and getting…

— Amala Akkineni

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

— Plato

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters…

— George Horne

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is…

— Mother Teresa

The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from…

— T. E. Lawrence

“Nothing is simpler than to make good poverty of ideas by founding a system, and even a good idea has little value…

— Oswald Spengler

The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to…

— Leslie Jamison

We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions,…

— Muhammad Yunus

Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger…

— Damian Marley

Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, 'I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going…

— Rajneesh

Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the…

— William H. Sylvis

Tomorrow is Now... If we act, 2015 can be a year for the history books. It can be the year that we…

— Kathy Calvin

“Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine providence.”

— Sunday Adelaja

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

— Johann Lamont

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

— Michael Pollan

When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference; differences in the world will be made

— Kellie Elmore

“Only a man who is exceptionally skillful can stand before kings.”

— Sunday Adelaja

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

— Ban Ki-moon

“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

— Martha Stewart

You no wins, callin the field up and the drama done build up and this poverty's the cards that they dealed us.

— D Block

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

— Alexis De Veaux

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

— Matthew Desmond

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

— Victor Hugo

“You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.”

— Will Cuppy

“When you invest more time into something than others, you become the best among equals.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

— Cynthia Heimel