I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

— Albert Camus

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of…

— Simone de Beauvoir

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect,…

— Muhammad Yunus

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

— Anna Lindh

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

— Marco Rubio

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

— John O. Brennan

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most…

— Rick Bragg

But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in…

— Adam Smith

True poverty does not come from God.

— Anonymous

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

— George Bernard Shaw

“There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.”

— Tom Morrison

There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work.…

— Pope Francis

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

— Marco Rubio