Poverty Quotes · Page 74

A garment of poverty in nt my size frm this day on forth God has made me a rich nigga

— Akamnonu Daniel

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

— Lucinda Williams

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

— Samuel Johnson

They do not easily rise in the world whose talents are depressed by poverty.

— Vikrant Parsai

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.

— Adrienne Clarkson

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

— Annie Lennox

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too…

— Sue Sanders

[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who…

— Thomas Sowell

Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what…

— Michelle Bachelet

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

— Desmond Tutu

“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit…

— Jimmy Carter

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is…

— William Shakespeare

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would…

— Ludwig von Mises

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating,…

— Mother Teresa

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering…

— Hermann Hesse

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an…

— Thomas Jefferson

This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use…

— Frederick Seitz

“It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defenselessness, destitution. A squalid…

— Victor Hugo

Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other…

— John Wycliffe

“To own something and not be aware of it could not only be annoying, but fatal too. That is why most people…

— Sunday Adelaja

If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to…

— George Kaiser

“Those who have made it to the top have only done so through hard work and time conversion.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

— Katie Davis

“Hunger takes away what you are. Everything we were was just nothing then.”

— Sebastian Barry

The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.

— Thabo Mbeki

You were never poor as long as you had something to love.

— Anonymous

“...the unmistakable smell of poverty, a mixture of cigarette smoke, weed, stale sweat, and fried food.”

— Allison Leotta

“If you think you are poor, then you are more than that.”

— Alin Sav

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

— Henri Nouwen

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

— Eamon Dunphy

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

— Madonna

“I’m rich in poverty. I got no money coming out of my ass. I’m up to my neck in broke.”

— Jarod Kintz

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger

— Jack Straw

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

— Publilius Syrus

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

— Oscar Wilde

He is poor who doesnt have enough, he is poorer who cannot get enough.

— Jean Guehenno