Poverty Quotes · Page 69

“I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

— George Bernard Shaw

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

— Novak Djokovic

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

— Bill Vaughan

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

— Jerry Brown

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,

— Iqbal Quadir

“We are the First Generation that can End Global Extreme Poverty. One of the Ways is by Investing in Education”

— David Sikhosana

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

— Anonymous

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The…

— Jack Monroe

We cannot and will not rest until we have won true swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions - until we…

— Rajiv Gandhi

“To truly be satisfied in life, you must invest your time into doing what you were born to do instead of wasting…

— Sunday Adelaja

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving,…

— Sean O'Casey

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.

— Camille Paglia

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of…

— Anonymous

This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.

— Matthew Desmond

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to…

— Ric Edelman

“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your…

— Katherine Boo

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and…

— William Saroyan

In the global millennium goals, we're on track to beat and eliminate severe poverty. So there are lots of positive trends. I…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

“The ‘population problem’ has been seen as something that happens in the Indian countryside or a Nairobi slum. It is cited as…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“I grew up in extreme poverty,’ said Hari Das. ‘Like me, my father was a day labourer, who also did theyyam during…

— William Dalrymple

What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school…

— Arne Duncan

The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick…

— Sarah Kendzior

Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.

— Rick Warren

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the…

— Newt Gingrich

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

— Bob Marley

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

— Jeffrey Sachs

“Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty, socialism sends them back.”

— Jeffrey Fry

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

— Russell Simmons

“But, as my sister says, ‘there must always be poor people so that now that I’m rich I can shit on them.”

— Marcel Proust

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

— Jethro Tull

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

— Raj Patel

Water is the key to dealing with the twin challenges of poverty and growth.

— Sunita Narain

“The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its essence, but that it was there .”

— David Drake

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

— Abigail Van Buren

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

— Anonymous

“I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.”

— Gary Shteyngart

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

— Nikolai Gogol

“To defy the God of Progress is often to marry the Goddess of Poverty.”

— David James Duncan