Poverty Quotes · Page 57

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

— Josh Billings

“Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

— Molly Ivins

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“For you to be great, you must make sure that every second of your life counts.”

— Sunday Adelaja

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

— John Burdett

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

— Paul Collier

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter…

— Werner Bischof

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue…

— Kofi Annan

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.”

— William Saroyan

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all…

— David Platt

I need to be in charge, and that comes from when I was growing up and money was always an issue. I…

— Abi Morgan

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence…

— Martin Sheen

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer…

— Barack Obama

“At the street corner, a one-storey house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, seemed to command the entrance, like a…

— Émile Zola

I mean, you just go down the line, and with any of these issues, it's about rich people staying rich. And using…

— Conor Oberst

Poverty should be one of the top concerns for any elected leader. It has a negative effect on almost everything we as…

— Ron Crumpton

Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength…

— Will Durant

“To the RKO motion picture camera at her 100th birthday party: “I pray for the day when working men and women are…

— Jerry Ash

The first thing we should acknowledge is that poverty is hugely expensive. It varies from country to country, but most of the…

— Rutger Bregman

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

— Victoria Moran

The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

— Napoleon Hill

“The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition.”

— Panashe Chigumadzi

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

— Sidney Poitier

“Stop reacting to poverty,act upon yourself and start living in prosperity.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

— Tony Danza

It is important that, however we choose to describe the measures, we tackle child poverty head on.

— Heidi Allen

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

— Lee Whitnum

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

— John Legend

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

— John O. Brennan

“The race we are in is a race against the disappearing life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

— Samuel Johnson

“How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?”

— Kate Morton

“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.”

— Laurence Overmire

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

— John F. Kennedy

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

— Georges Bernanos