Poverty Quotes · Page 81

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

— Barack Obama

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

— R. G. LeTourneau

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

— George Gissing

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

— Sunday Adelaja

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

— Socrates

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

— Libba Bray

“Everybody potentially can be great. It is not only some few people who could be great.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

— John Maynard Keynes

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination…

— Amy Sedaris

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

— Democritus

I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants…

— Rajiv Gandhi

I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.

— Lynn Nottage

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its…

— Anonymous

The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most…

— Thomas Sowell

It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices…

— Barack Obama

This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation…

— Nelson Mandela

It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use on-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could…

— Paul McCartney

“On the coming of evening, I return to my house and enter my study; and at the door I take off the…

— Anonymous

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure…

— Bob Brown

The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps…

— Lester R. Brown

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

— Oscar Wilde

“Poor people waste time, rich people save time. Poor people who invest time are no longer poor.”

— Alin Sav

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

— Amartya Sen

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

— Hill Harper

“For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first understand that time is life and life is time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

— Anonymous

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

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“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

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

— Herman Melville

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

— Chris Van Hollen

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Pat Barker