Poverty Quotes · Page 72

“Poverty doesn’t allow of honourable feeling, any more than of compassion.”

— George Gissing

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

— R. G. LeTourneau

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

— Barack Obama

“Poor people are subject to fancies — this is a provision of nature.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

— Socrates

“When you are able to create values in yourself or in others then you have won the race.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“You will never solve poverty without solving health and sanitation.”

— Nivesh Raj

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

— Douglas Lenat

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be…

— Kumi Naidoo

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always:…

— Nicolas Chamfort

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health…

— Marian Wright Edelman

There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy.…

— Madsen Pirie

I think Americans yearn for other alternatives to peace, than the path our government has currently taken, and perhaps why there is…

— Greg Mortenson

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of…

— Dorothy Day

“The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth:…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

“I never doubted I would have a roof over my head, a school to go to, enough to to eat, books (and…

— Chelsea Clinton

“Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the…

— Martin Luther

It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police…

— Warren Ballentine

I do not believe we can truly enter into our own inner pain and wounds and open our hearts to others unless…

— Jean Vanier

Anyone who lives with poor health or chronic pain, or who has endured poverty - real poverty - knows what it is…

— C.E. Morgan

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained…

— Muhammad Yunus

“Here is the problem: Poor Americans consume too little healthcare, especially preventive healthcare. Other Americans—often rich Americans—consume too much healthcare, often unwisely,…

— Otis Webb Brawley

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

— Christine Gregoire

I trained myself not to want things, because I thought I'd always be poor.

— Jean Marsh

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

— Sophia Loren

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

— Seneca the Younger

“The first thing you want to do to become great is to discover your area of calling.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“There would come a time in our poverty when we needed a party.”

— John Steinbeck

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).

— Margaret Sanger

You're not poor because you don't have money. You're poor if you don't have a dream.

— Randy Gage

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

“The question most people do not ask themselves is what they could do with their time to make it productive.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The starting point for greatness is to know what to do with your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

— Chris Van Hollen

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

— Herman Melville

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

— Dillon Burroughs