Poverty Quotes · Page 79

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

— Malcolm Turnbull

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

— Gertrude Stein

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

— Dorothy Day

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.

— Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

— Dustin Hoffman

“Poverty is a mental virus, even if one could get a million, the mindset will always kick in.”

— Evans Biya

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

— Albert Camus

“Our goals and objectives are supposed to be well planned out in our minds.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live…

— Jeremy Corbyn

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in…

— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

“If you really want to be an effective time manager, you will have to learn to say no to other people and…

— Sunday Adelaja

Terrorism is usually fueled by poverty, and the fanatical faith of the terrorists who truly believe that the more people they kill…

— Jane Goodall

“My pop always said poverty fucks with you... makes you think you can do things you really can't and start selling your…

— J.J. McAvoy

This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured…

— Emily Dickinson

Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

— Juan Manuel Santos

Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you…

— Bob Torres

“There is, in the circumstances of modern life, only one solution to the problem of resentment, and that is social mobility. The…

— Roger Scruton

I grew up in poverty, so I thought, 'I want to be a billionaire one day. I'll go and work for Donald…

— Omarosa Manigault Newman

One of the major causes of poverty is a lack of family planning. Governments and nonprofit organizations need to encourage poor people…

— Philip Kotler

“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any…

— Muhammad Yunus

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does…

— Shimon Peres

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to…

— Samuel Johnson

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

— Immanuel Kant

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

— May Sarton

The difference between a rich man and a poor one depends upon the hand whether it gives or receives.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Only through the conversion of time can territories be conquered.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“If you really one to become great, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Many a time a poor soul has been put before the dock, to save the neck of the wealthy.”

— Donald Allen Kirch

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

— Abu Bakar Bashir

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

— Euripides

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

— Anton Chekhov

The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.

— Bill Gates

There is no poverty where there is character, and no wealth or honor where character is missing.

— Vikrant Parsai

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

— Bill Gates

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

— Roger Chamberlain

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

— Thales

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

— Susan L. Taylor