Poverty Quotes · Page 83

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

— George Gissing

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

— Rutger Bregman

Their will always be a person in need and a person with more need than that person in need

— Enrique Alcala

“Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

Work is the only way - the only sustainable way - to escape poverty.

— Pierre Poilievre

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

— Akong Rinpoche

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for…

— Ban Ki-moon

I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.

— Sri Chinmoy

I think it would be an extreme poverty indeed if there weren't more than one person willing to compete for the presidential…

— Martin O'Malley

[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him…

— Catherine Camus

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people…

— Marco Rubio

I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?'

— Tyra Banks

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

— Leonard Ravenhill

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was…

— Little Richard

“We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while…

— Anthon St. Maarten

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our brave men and women have made many sacrifices in just wars to defeat the forces of evil. We have exported our…

— Marco Rubio

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The…

— Condoleezza Rice

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China…

— Jay Inslee

As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as…

— Nelson Mandela

Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's…

— Peter Weiss

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

— Carolyn Wheat

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

— Jean Paul

The South Bronx has long been ground zero for racially concentrated poverty.

— Ritchie Torres

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

— Jonathan Swift

What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.

— Ernesto Sirolli

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

— Oscar Wilde

“The more time you invest into your land of promise, the more productive the land becomes for you.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

— Roger Moore

“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along”

— Matthew Desmond

The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty.

— Mo Ibrahim

I'm poor just like everybody else. If someone kidnaps me, they're getting nothing but a candy, a gum.

— Jessica Andrade

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

— Dante Alighieri

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

— Imelda Marcos

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

— Angela Rayner

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

— Anonymous

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

— Mother Teresa