Poverty Quotes · Page 102

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

— Steve Perry

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

— Chaka Fattah

“When a man is rich, whether in gold or in knowledge, he must treat the poverty of others with consideration.”

— Amin Maalouf

I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.

— Edwina Currie

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

We must focus on our biggest enemy, poverty. There is no single-state solution to it, and that is a noble goal.

— Ashraf Ghani

Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.

— Louise Closser Hale

While easy to understand, the income-based poverty line has limitations. Specifically, the median monthly household income measures only income without considering assets.

— Carrie Lam

Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what…

— Michelle Bachelet

When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption.

— Desmond Tutu

“The master doesn’t need to chain his slaves; their needs will chain them to him. You can end slavery by the stroke…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit…

— Jimmy Carter

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is…

— William Shakespeare

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to…

— Sunday Adelaja

“Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become.…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing its hard to carry on when no one loves you.…

— Unknowns

Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here…

— Samuel Johnson

There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring…

— Bobby Ghosh

“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured…

— Robert Walser

What we've undergone in recent decades worldwide has been totally insane, and all of this is a result of capitalism. The workforce…

— Rafael Correa

“If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life you will regret it. If you…

— Sunday Adelaja

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you…

— Andre Gide

“deprivation doesn’t work for me, and research shows it doesn’t work for most other people, either.”

— Travis Stork

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death! Live, Live, Live!”

— Patrick Dennis Pat Tanner

If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

— Matthew Desmond

The issues are always the same. Racism, war, poverty, the geography changes.

— Jim Kerr

“Those who possess time are often not aware of its value.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.”

— Bono

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

— Thomas Malthus

a call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.

— Sydney Biddle Barrows

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements

— William Carlos Williams

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

— O. Henry

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

— John Hagee

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

— James Cook

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

— Margaret Oliphant

“For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana