Poverty Quotes · Page 78

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

— Richard P. Feynman

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

— Martin Lewis Perl

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

— Anais Nin

When I made 'Hera Pheri,' there was a huge poverty in Hindi cinema for comedies.

— Priyadarshan

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

— Peter Drucker

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

— Ernest L. Boyer

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

— Michael Moore

I'd like to live in an area of social deprivation because I think it's important to get a feel of what it's…

— Mike Nesbitt

“You are killing your life if you are just going through the traditions and routine of church services with no product to…

— Sunday Adelaja

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important…

— Cesar Chavez

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no…

— Ted Turner

The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Hearing the statistic that one in four children in Scotland suffer from poverty just made me think that if there is even…

— Amy Macdonald

Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense…

— Harry Belafonte

“All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine…

— Peter Kreeft

“Close your eyes, Maxon." "What?" "Close your eyes. Somewhere in this palace, there is a woman who will be your wife. This…

— Kiera Cass

It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to…

— James Purnell

The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations,…

— Lawrence Joseph

The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good…By 1995,…

— Charles Derber

I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because…

— Viola Davis

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first.…

— Victoria Moran

Poverty does not create our social problems...our social problems create our poverty.

— Marco Rubio

“I've seen poverty & I can assure you that it's 'too dark' (Black) in colour.”

— Cedric Namedi Mathuthe

“Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.”

— Susan Eaton

Rich people associate with rich and successful people. Poor people will associate with poor people.

— Anonymous

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

— Noel Gallagher

“By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.”

— Anonymous

“There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.”

— Heinrich Harrer

Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.

— Ronald Reagan

I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.

— Matthew Desmond

“Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

— William Hazlitt

It's definitely not the case that every child living in poverty is eligible for free school lunches.

— Jack Monroe

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

So many people who desire poverty get it quickly, but those who desire wealth never have it.

— Vikrant Parsai

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

— Darynda Jones

If You Are Born Poor Than This Is not Your mistake But If you Die Poor Than This Is Your Mistake.

— Anonymous