Poverty Quotes · Page 81

If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only

— Arabian Proverb

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

— Adam Rapp

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

— Amartya Sen

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

— Plautus

“If you leave this world without solving the problems for which you were born, then you are a failure.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.

— Ory Okolloh

“In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day.”

— Dan Baum

Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.

— Ravi Zacharias

Those who are not aware of the real and limitless resources lying dormant within human life are deprived, and this self-deprivation is…

— Senora Roy

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is…

— Vinod Khosla

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question,…

— Kathy Acker

The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is open…

— Peter Navarro

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

— George Bernard Shaw

Neoliberalism has left Britain's boss classes drunk on triumphalism, paying themselves record salaries and bonuses while their workers are imprisoned by poverty…

— Owen Jones

My story, is how a kid that's born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in…

— Don Felder

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you…

— Matt Damon

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so…

— Thomas Jefferson

“A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not…

— J.M. Coetzee

“Never, never hide your pain, scream as if you are dying so you will not be harmed more. Never, never hide your…

— F. Sionil José

The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts…

— Pedro Noguera

The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But…

— George McGovern

When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and…

— Harvey Gantt

You will live to see men arise in power in the Church who will seek to put down your friends and the…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the…

— Rudy Giuliani

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young…

— Chely Wright

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

— Eartha Kitt

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

— Antonia Fraser

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

— Bertrand Russell

The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.

— St. Vincent

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

— Mother Teresa

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

— Ana Castillo

We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop.

— Clara Fraser

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

— Pope Francis

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

— Iqbal Quadir

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

— Mark Twain

“life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.” I”

— Rosalind Russell

“So because you are converting it, you are reproducing your life that way.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

— Arnold Bennett

“You get a clearer picture of what your life should be like in the place of solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

— Garry Trudeau