Poverty Quotes · Page 98

But I'm just hungry, no I'm not poor, That's why I came here for, And no not because I needed more.

— Lil Twist

“Besides(..), it's a poor woman whose ambition is only to be loved.”

— Sarah Perry

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

— Pericles

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

— Albert Camus

“I do not condemn either the rich or the poor, but the consequences of these two.”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

— George Bernard Shaw

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

— Novak Djokovic

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

— Bill Vaughan

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better.…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned…

— Louisa May Alcott

I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and…

— Pamela Yates

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became…

— Edward Gibbon

He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable…

— Ernst Engel

“We would eventually get rid of poverty if there were no women or girls who are willing to sleep with men or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually…

— Wess Stafford

I had done a lot of indie movies before I realized that acting could be a way for me to get my…

— Coco Martin

Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Democrat Party is threatened by people whose economic circumstances improve to the point that they do not need government first and…

— Rush Limbaugh

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but…

— Margaret Fuller

“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich,…

— Leo Tolstoy

In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic…

— Blanche Lincoln

For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.…

— John F. Kennedy

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue,…

— Penn Jillette

For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture…

— J. D. Vance

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.

— Jerry Brown

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,

— Iqbal Quadir

“We are the First Generation that can End Global Extreme Poverty. One of the Ways is by Investing in Education”

— David Sikhosana

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

— Anonymous

Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.

— Rick Warren

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the…

— Newt Gingrich

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

— Bob Marley

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

— Jeffrey Sachs

“Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty, socialism sends them back.”

— Jeffrey Fry

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

— Russell Simmons

“But, as my sister says, ‘there must always be poor people so that now that I’m rich I can shit on them.”

— Marcel Proust

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

— Jethro Tull

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

— Raj Patel

Water is the key to dealing with the twin challenges of poverty and growth.

— Sunita Narain

“The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its essence, but that it was there .”

— David Drake

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

— Abigail Van Buren