Poverty Quotes

I was poor my whole life.

— Blackbear

And makes me poor indeed.

— William Shakespeare

I prefer to stay poor.

— Azzedine Alaia

It is a sin to be poor.

— Charles Fillmore

Poverty leads to protests.

— Nuseir Yassin

I'm not rich, I'm not poor.

— Dereck Chisora

“Prioritize your values.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The poor sleep little.

— Thomas Otway

“When prayer replace work then poverty takes over”

— Nicky Verd

“We are all a whole bunch of accidental products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Poor are those who have eyes but cannot see... ☥”

— Luis Marques

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

— Sally Stanford

If you want to help the poor, don't be poor

— Ann Wilson

“Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty!”

— Al Fike

Sex is free fun for poor people.

— Doug Stanhope

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

— Martin O'Malley

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

— Henry Ford

“Poverty, war, and abuse stalked the earth, and women got the worst of it.”

— Therese Oneill

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

— Daniel Defoe

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

— Oliver Stone

“Run well and win in this race of life by converting your time into added values and products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“You can produce as many products as you want in life if you just apply the principle of time conversion.”

— Sunday Adelaja

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle…

— Saint John Chrysostom

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in…

— Adora Svitak

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address…

— Seth Berkley

“Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the…

— James Morcan

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

— Indira Gandhi

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent…

— Vanna Bonta

“One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history…

— Matthew Desmond

It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the…

— Coretta Scott King

“Poverty drove their parents to have them castrated as young children, hoping they would earn a better living at court. Usually the…

— Jung Chang

“Laziness can be a value on its own for those who want to show supremacy through contempt for work and wish to…

— Erik Pevernagie

If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey…

— Richard Benjamin

We must remember that self-reliance and eradication of poverty demands - indeed, compel - the present generation to bear hardship and make…

— Rajiv Gandhi

“Zehrunisa didn’t know Abdul’s age herself. Seventeen was what she’d said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have…

— Katherine Boo

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can…

— James Wolfensohn

The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we…

— Thomas Merton

“Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never…

— Charles Adolphe Wurtz