--- title: "9 Poverty Make Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Poverty Make quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Poverty Make sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1f/ines-thorn-243735_poverty_poverty-can-make-people-self-centered-18_1801376.jpg" --- > [“Poverty can make people self-centered”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ines-thorn/poverty-can-make-people-self-centered/) [Ines Thorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ines-thorn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1f/ines-thorn-243735_poverty_poverty-can-make-people-self-centered-18_1801376.jpg) > [“Poverty will make the best people bad, if it gets hard enough. Why there’s so much of it in the world, I’m…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-gissing/poverty-will-make-the-best-people-bad-if-it-gets-hard-enough-why/) [George Gissing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-gissing/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e8/george-gissing-7774_poverty_poverty-will-make-the-best-people-bad-if_1641668.jpg) > [There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lenny-bruce/there-s-a-lot-of-money-in-wars-except-in-the-war-on-poverty-can-t/) [Lenny Bruce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lenny-bruce/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/748/lenny-bruce-4320_bread_there-s-a-lot-of-money-in-wars-except-in_2591428.jpg) > [70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marco-rubio/70-of-children-born-into-poverty-will-never-make-it-to-the-middle/) [Marco Rubio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marco-rubio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11f/marco-rubio-355_born_70-of-children-born-into-poverty-will-ne_3070854.png) > [“So in concrete terms, just how much dumber does poverty make you? “Our effects correspond to between 13 and 14 IQ points,”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/so-in-concrete-terms-just-how-much-dumber-does-poverty-make-you-our/) [Rutger Bregman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rutger-bregman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d8/rutger-bregman-2463_poverty_so-in-concrete-terms-just-how-much-dumbe_957748.jpg) > [If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/if-america-does-not-use-her-vast-resources-of-wealth-to-end-poverty/) [Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b76/martin-luther-king-jr-127_america_if-america-does-not-use-her-vast-resourc_513135.png) > [The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacqueline-novogratz/the-only-way-to-end-poverty-to-make-it-history-is-to-build-viable/) [Jacqueline Novogratz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacqueline-novogratz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfc/jacqueline-novogratz-2383_affordable_the-only-way-to-end-poverty-to-make-it-h_2373327.jpg) > [For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/for-when-you-are-approaching-poverty-you-make-one-discovery-which-2/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5a/george-orwell-57_boredom_for-when-you-are-approaching-poverty-you_2410437.jpg) > [Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-keniston/confronted-with-the-unhappy-facts-of-exclusion-we-sometimes-reassure/) [Kenneth Keniston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-keniston/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5a/kenneth-keniston-25055_ability_confronted-with-the-unhappy-facts-of-exc_437124.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poverty-make/#itemlist", "name": "Poverty Make Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Poverty can make people self-centered”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ines Thorn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ines-thorn/poverty-can-make-people-self-centered/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1f/ines-thorn-243735_poverty_poverty-can-make-people-self-centered-18_1801376.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1f/ines-thorn-243735_poverty_poverty-can-make-people-self-centered-18_1801376.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1f/ines-thorn-243735_poverty_poverty-can-make-people-self-centered-18_1801376.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Poverty can make people self-centered” — Ines Thorn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Poverty will make the best people bad, if it gets hard enough. 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