All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. — Joseph Jefferson Copy Share Image
A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We live in a country with a vast majority of people below the poverty line. Our natural resources are limited and getting… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The wealthy don't cry over the fact that they are wealthy as long as the poor cry about the poverty that surrounds… — Morph Vishn Copy Share Image
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Then they start going on about cancer and how organic living is the way forward, totally ignoring how expensive it is to… — Lisa O'Donnell Copy Share Image
All too easily I have had people dismiss food poverty as an affliction of the workless and idle, insinuating that it is… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical;… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It breaks my heart when I watch TV or walk on the streets and see these little kids struggling; walking around with… — London Mond Copy Share Image
The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income,… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
There are a lot of Egyptians who live below the poverty line and are preoccupied with meeting basic needs. Therefore, we have… — Mindy Baha El Din Copy Share Image
EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them. — Matthew Ashimolowo Copy Share Image
“You too can become wealthy but only thanks to the amount of time you are willing to convert into products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world. — Ousmane Sembene Copy Share Image
By helping investors create jobs in Africa and Asia we will help lift millions out of poverty. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer. — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Give generously knowing some poor helpless mutant will thank you. Not in person. Thank god. -Narrator — Futurama Copy Share Image
“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.” — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
