Poverty Quotes · Page 108

Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming…

— Amartya Sen

As the fields fear drought in autumn, so people fear poverty in old age.

— Anonymous

I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the…

— Shane Claiborne

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

— Molly Ivins

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits…

— Margaret Sanger

Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

— Sherry Thomas

Poverty has become a big problem.

— Alberto Fernandez

Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You get the…

— Lisa Kleypas

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

— Terry Wogan

We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort…

— Pope Francis

“I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on…

— Sherman Alexie

Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

— Immortal Technique

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

— Peter Diamandis

“The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfilment of your purpose.”

— Sunday Adelaja

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and…

— Jennifer Garner

For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to…

— Samuel Adams

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and…

— Barack Obama

“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

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

— P. J. O'Rourke

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior…

— Henry Louis Gates

“Poverty is being single.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years…

— Maxine Waters

“The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I…

— Thomas Browne

“The only way to saturate the earth with your products like Steve Jobs is to invest your time doing what you were…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Scholars talk about the endless cycle of poverty and racism and classism and crime. But I don't see it as a cycle,…

— Sherman Alexie

“the freedom money gives the poor man is nothing to the freedom money has given the rich man. With money rich men…

— H.G. Wells

“You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep…

— Juan Somavia

There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy.…

— Madsen Pirie

“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

— Nhat Hanh

“But the poor and indigent who earn scarcely enough to keep themselves alive and who also have to pay tribute to the…

— José Rizal

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

— Anais Nin

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

— George Gissing

“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich,…

— Leo Tolstoy

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

This [2016] election is also about, so importantly to me, African-American and Hispanic-American people whose communities have been plunged into crime, poverty…

— Donald Trump