Poverty Quotes · Page 45

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution.

— Eduardo Paes

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

— Peter Kropotkin

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

— Martial

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

— Paulo Coelho

The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.

— Lindsey Graham

Growing up, we weren't poor, but we didn't have money to spare.

— Rachel Reeves

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

— Dillon Burroughs

“(a deprivation that, in truth, was not so much a daily trial of living as a suffocating flatness of life),”

— Jonathan Stone

We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a…

— Maverick Carter

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then…

— Margaret Thatcher

I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at the poverty level. It's a rough city to grow up in, and it's…

— Freddie Gibbs

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an…

— Benigno Aquino III

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know…

— Louisa May Alcott

Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised…

— Tupac Shakur

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind…

— Scott Brooks

“Instead of your life just disappearing or being wasted or spent, you are racing to make sure that it is being converted,…

— Sunday Adelaja

Now, you might say – “But why should we pay people for doing what they’re supposed to do?” It’s a fair question…

— Michael Bloomberg

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand…

— Alain de Botton

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which…

— Rocco Buttiglione

In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul,…

— Peter Maurin

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“To answer your question as honestly as I can, I've wanted since I was very little to not have to worry about…

— Ryan North

It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t…

— Caitlin Moran

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

— Stephen Leacock

“My parents sold blood for money to buy food. Poverty was our spirit animal.”

— Sherman Alexie

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

— Jessica Jackley

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

— Shimon Peres

Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

— Kelly Clarkson

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

— Anais Nin

When I made 'Hera Pheri,' there was a huge poverty in Hindi cinema for comedies.

— Priyadarshan

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

— Peter Drucker

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

— Ernest L. Boyer

Poverty does not create our social problems...our social problems create our poverty.

— Marco Rubio

“I've seen poverty & I can assure you that it's 'too dark' (Black) in colour.”

— Cedric Namedi Mathuthe

One persons concept of wealth, is anothers understanding of poverty.

— Wealth Poverty

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

— John Pilger