Poverty Quotes · Page 99

Money may talk, but Debt screams like a horde of syphilitic banshees!

— Rock Cowles

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

— Benjamin Franklin

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

— Rumi

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

— Susan L. Taylor

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

— Thales

“Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The difference between a rich man and a poor one depends upon the hand whether it gives or receives.

— Vikrant Parsai

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

— May Sarton

“From being the object of a religious experience and sanctified, poverty became the object of a moral conception that condemned”

— Michel Foucault

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the…

— Thomas Pogge

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

— Ronald Reagan

I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the…

— Milton Friedman

What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and…

— Ann Radcliffe

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

— Indira Gandhi

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

— Muhammad Yunus

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these…

— Plato

But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk…

— Hans Zinsser

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing…

— Lane Evans

Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto…

— Peter Maurer

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of…

— Arnold Palmer

There are things to be afraid of - like extraordinary poverty and suffering beyond anything I've experienced, and climate change, despots -…

— Gaby Hoffmann

Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who…

— Kenneth Keniston

Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the…

— Lottie Moon

Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence…

— Stephen Hawking

“Many a time a poor soul has been put before the dock, to save the neck of the wealthy.”

— Donald Allen Kirch

“If you really one to become great, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Only through the conversion of time can territories be conquered.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

— Josh Billings

“You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.”

— Sherman Alexie

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

— Anthony Lewis

You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

— Wangari Maathai

“If you understand the value of time, you will convert it into products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only

— Arabian Proverb

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

— Thomas Gray

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

— John W. Gardner

“To allow your life varnish into vanity without reproducing it would mean to live a wasted life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

— Elizabeth Warren

“Without solitude, we cannot fix the scattered pieces of our plans, hopes, wishes together.”

— Sunday Adelaja