The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I don’t believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That’s bullshit. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“Most people do not know how to exchange their lives for external treasures.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems. — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
“Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
So they pay $1,000,000 for commercials of starving kids, but they can't feed them? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who are less fortunate are the ones with the most possibilities in life the rich will cower in fear eventually by… — Ishtiyaq Khan Copy Share Image
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Poor thing, consigned to a life of frivolousness and wretched things for breakfast. Not allowed to go to school or do anything… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Hunger and poverty steal your childhood and take away your innocence and sense of security. But I was one of the lucky… — Saroo Brierley Copy Share Image
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
“No one wants to be poor. In my view, and the view of many authors who have focused on poverty and practical… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
“--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Everybody finds themselves sometimes deficient in what they need, and put to inconvenience ... the richest people may easily be without something… — St. Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
Ironically, though our society of affluence brings safety and stability, it doesn't bring psychological health. As wealth goes up, suicide and depression… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“Even that great poverty which had been and remains mine let up for a few days. I was not, as it happens,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
