Poverty Quotes · Page 78

Many benefit cuts hit single parents hardest and punish children by forcing their families into destitution.

— Dawn Foster

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

— Plautus

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

— Anonymous

“Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death!”

— Patrick Dennis

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

— Gregory David Roberts

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

— Gordon Parks

Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.

— Nadia Murad

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

— Tupac Shakur

Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public…

— Ron Crumpton

I've got friends whose parents work three jobs. They don't know where their next meal is going to come from. When you've…

— Fred VanVleet

Being Unwanted, Unloved, Uncared for, forgotten by everybody, is much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing…

— Mother Teresa

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil…

— Paul Krugman

We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there…

— Alex Steffen

Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.

— Ann Rule

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

— Josiah Strong

“THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS TO THE MIND EXCEPT THOSE WE ACKNOWLEDGE BOTH POVERTY AND RICHES ARE THE OFFSPRING OF THOUGHT”

— Napoleon Hill

Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of…

— B. C. Forbes

“We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products…

— Julianne Malveaux

Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“You are put in school to be trained to become exactly what they want you to be: not them, anything but them.…

— craig stone

If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do…

— Robert Collier

There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from…

— Tom Morello

We should condemn as unjust a global economic order that leads to ever-increasing economic disparities - provided this effect is foreseeable and…

— Thomas Pogge

Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right…

— Frederick Lenz

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“As long as money is respected, poor will be disrespected!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

— Seneca the Elder

Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.

— T. Harv Eker

“Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered.”

— Sunday Adelaja

So they pay $1,000,000 for commercials of starving kids, but they can't feed them?

— Anonymous

“I've been rich and I've been poor, and rich is better.”

— Mae West

I don’t believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That’s bullshit.

— David Byrne

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

— Juvenal

“Most people do not know how to exchange their lives for external treasures.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty.

— Rick Harrison

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

— Sugata Mitra

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

— O. Henry

“Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them.”

— Rafik Schami

Lazy hands make a poor man,but didigent hands bring wealth.

— Anonymous

“One thing is needful and that is converting your time into fulfilling your purpose on the earth.”

— Sunday Adelaja