Poverty Quotes · Page 91

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.

— David Bornstein

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

— Gustave Flaubert

Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty.

— Ban Ki-moon

“Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squatter camp.Matsime Simon Mohapi”

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient

— Sydney Smith

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

— Sherry Thomas

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

— Nelson Mandela

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't…

— Rob Zombie

To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.

— Jagmeet Singh

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among…

— Victoria Woodhull

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we…

— Nancy Mairs

“Invest maximum amount of time into refining your gift and become best at what you were called to do and you will…

— Sunday Adelaja

Universal credit is not lifting up the most vulnerable people in crisis. Instead, it's pushing them further into poverty, hardship and destitution.

— Heidi Allen

“You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed…

— M.F. Moonzajer

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would…

— Harry Browne

Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had…

— Pablo Neruda

I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of…

— Janice Mirikitani

MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a…

— Christopher Hitchens

We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, affliction, or infamy. We kill when, because it is easier, we countenance, or…

— Hermann Hesse

It's so hard for me to even acknowledge America without talking about race. If you look at our society, if you look…

— Dave Matthews

A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the…

— Jacque Fresco

Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here…

— Harry Belafonte

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's…

— Barack Obama

“beyond blows and hunger there is something that hurts even more: poverty”

— Jacob Dinezon

We must start talking differently about poverty--and start doing something differently.

— Gary Haugen

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

— Carlo Collodi

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

— Julia Cameron

“Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.” – Khalil Gibran”

— Stellan Moreira

Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.

— Barack Obama

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

— Bill Gates

Poor people don't drive the toxic form of economic 'growth' that is destroying our environment.

— Clive Lewis

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

— Fidel Castro

“People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves”

— ben elton

“If you retreat in response to desire rather than deprivation, the deprivation may never come.”

— Laurie Helgoe

“Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squattercamp.”

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

— Charlie Munger

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

— James Wolfensohn

“It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value.”

— Sunday Adelaja