Poverty Quotes · Page 54

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

— Mike Huckabee

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell…

— Mark Twain

“The best way to convert your time into products is through the power of isolation.”

— Sunday Adelaja

He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

— Horace

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

— Michel Chossudovsky

No matter how much poverty you grow up with, you shouldn't be subjected to violence and abuse.

— Jimmy Barnes

Should poverty , illness , and death not exist , man would not bow to anything

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me.

— Matthew Desmond

“As a child in poverty you never know that you're poor, the slums are the slums. They're home. They're what is. So…

— Mark Lawrence

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic…

— Charles Barkley

“to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything,…

— Victor Hugo

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be…

— Dudley North

A lot of our social ills are directly related to poverty, not that people of higher status don't have problems, but they…

— Ashley Biden

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and…

— Kofi Annan

Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty…

— Susan Ertz

Only that which lasts forever is real. That which is done in the temple lasts forever; therefore, the temple is the real…

— John H. Groberg

As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will…

— Tom Robbins

When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously,…

— Kathryn Edin

Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off…

— C. S. Lewis

There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of…

— Dalai Lama

I want to make sure that we have a tax code that makes sure that everyone benefits, including those in poverty and…

— Mark Meadows

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

For the poor sick present in thisworld as any other great crime

— Mal_786

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

— Tyler Cowen

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

— John Hickenlooper

“We were born beggars, we will live like beggars and we will die like beggars.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“You must intercept the passing time well, hence it will fly away into vanity.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“You give your way out of poverty but you sacrifice your way to wealth.”

— McWilton Chikwenengere

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

— T. Harv Eker

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

— Octave Mirbeau

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

— Washington Irving

“I have no doubt that the elimination of poverty and deprivation is possible by 2020.”

— C.K. Prahalad

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of my life; if I die tomorrow.

— Vicky

“Every one of us must learn how to make our time productive.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The problem of poverty must force us to innovate, not claim "rights to impose our solutions.”

— C.K. Prahalad

“The world gives a way to the man who knows where he is going.”

— Sunday Adelaja