Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

— Sherman Alexie

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

— Plato

I think there is a lot of crime caused by desperation, and it doesn't mean that people commit crime because they're poor, but certainly…

— Peter Moskos

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity.…

— Mother Teresa

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing…

— Ben Shahn

“My Poverty doesn't help anyone, but my wealth helps a lot of people.”

— Dolf de Roos

I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

— Andy Stanley

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

— George Gissing

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

— Alberto Fujimori

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which…

— George Bernard Shaw

We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the…

— B. R. Ambedkar

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

— Charlotte Bronte

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

— George Bernard Shaw