--- title: "9 Poverty Social Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 9 Poverty Social quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Poverty Social sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/christopher-ryan-4309_poverty_poverty-is-a-social-status-653458_653458.jpg" --- > [“Poverty is a social status.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-ryan/poverty-is-a-social-status/) [Christopher Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-ryan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/christopher-ryan-4309_poverty_poverty-is-a-social-status-653458_653458.jpg) > [The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-powell/the-root-cause-of-poverty-is-social-injustice-and-the-bad-government/) [Colin Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-powell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/colin-powell-691_abet_the-root-cause-of-poverty-is-social-inju_265968.jpg) > [There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-fraser/there-are-no-quick-fixes-to-indigenous-poverty-and-social-disaster/) [Malcolm Fraser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-fraser/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/malcolm-fraser-17691_disaster_there-are-no-quick-fixes-to-indigenous-p_1145327.png) > [“from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological poverty, which puts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/from-two-kinds-of-poverty-social-poverty-which-withholds-from-some/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82f/yuval-noah-harari-100_poverty_from-two-kinds-of-poverty-social-poverty_1307266.jpg) > [The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-mcquaig/the-free-market-is-notorious-for-distributing-resources-in-a-highly/) [Linda McQuaig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-mcquaig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/linda-mcquaig-38650_bottom_the-free-market-is-notorious-for-distrib_1824035.jpg) > [Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-ryan/poverty-is-not-a-certain-small-amount-of-goods-nor-is-it-just-a/) [Christopher Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-ryan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3d/christopher-ryan-4309_certain_poverty-is-not-a-certain-small-amount-of_2794924.jpg) > [The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-sahlins/the-world-s-most-primitive-people-have-few-possessions-but-they-are/) [Marshall Sahlins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-sahlins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/marshall-sahlins-57873_amount_the-world-s-most-primitive-people-have-f_852858.jpg) > [“Throughout history, societies have suffered from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/throughout-history-societies-have-suffered-from-two-kinds-of-poverty/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e02/yuval-noah-harari-100_history_throughout-history-societies-have-suffer_455949.jpg) > [“Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-ryan/among-foragers-where-property-is-shared-poverty-tends-to-be-a/) [Christopher Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-ryan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c05/christopher-ryan-4309_poverty_among-foragers-where-property-is-shared_1769112.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poverty-social/#itemlist", "name": "Poverty Social Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Poverty is a social status.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Ryan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-ryan/poverty-is-a-social-status/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/christopher-ryan-4309_poverty_poverty-is-a-social-status-653458_653458.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/christopher-ryan-4309_poverty_poverty-is-a-social-status-653458_653458.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/christopher-ryan-4309_poverty_poverty-is-a-social-status-653458_653458.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Poverty is a social status.” — Christopher Ryan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Colin Powell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-powell/the-root-cause-of-poverty-is-social-injustice-and-the-bad-government/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/colin-powell-691_abet_the-root-cause-of-poverty-is-social-inju_265968.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/colin-powell-691_abet_the-root-cause-of-poverty-is-social-inju_265968.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/colin-powell-691_abet_the-root-cause-of-poverty-is-social-inju_265968.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it” — Colin Powell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Malcolm Fraser" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-fraser/there-are-no-quick-fixes-to-indigenous-poverty-and-social-disaster/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/malcolm-fraser-17691_disaster_there-are-no-quick-fixes-to-indigenous-p_1145327.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/malcolm-fraser-17691_disaster_there-are-no-quick-fixes-to-indigenous-p_1145327.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/malcolm-fraser-17691_disaster_there-are-no-quick-fixes-to-indigenous-p_1145327.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.” — Malcolm Fraser", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological poverty, which puts the very lives of individuals at risk due to lack of food and shelter.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yuval Noah Harari" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/from-two-kinds-of-poverty-social-poverty-which-withholds-from-some/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82f/yuval-noah-harari-100_poverty_from-two-kinds-of-poverty-social-poverty_1307266.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82f/yuval-noah-harari-100_poverty_from-two-kinds-of-poverty-social-poverty_1307266.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82f/yuval-noah-harari-100_poverty_from-two-kinds-of-poverty-social-poverty_1307266.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to…” — Yuval Noah Harari", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at the bottom. 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