Poverty Quotes · Page 58

Poor man eyes a rich man, denigrates his property. A rich man eyes a poor man, and envies his simplicity.

— The Rolling Stones

Give generously knowing some poor helpless mutant will thank you. Not in person. Thank god. -Narrator

— Futurama

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

— Christopher Marlowe

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

— William Maxwell

Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.

— Ian Brown

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

— Samuel Johnson

The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.

— Ousmane Sembene

By helping investors create jobs in Africa and Asia we will help lift millions out of poverty.

— Penny Mordaunt

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“We have the resources to allow everybody to live with dignity,; we have the technology to do it; what we don't have…

— Adriano Bulla

You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration…

— Marya Mannes

“If you desire to be great in life and live a life of no regret the number one thing you should do…

— Sunday Adelaja

My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…

— Milton Friedman

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

— Rick Warren

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out…

— Ted Turner

The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you…

— David Graeber

Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow…

— Majora Carter

The slaving Poor are incapable of any Principles: Gentlemen may be converted to true Principles, by Time and Experience. The middling Rank…

— David Hume

“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.…

— Jerry Ash

“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour,…

— Johann Joachim Becher

The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant…

— Edward Jenks

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with…

— Bernard Hill

Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that…

— Desmond Tutu

I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and…

— Leonard Susskind

It's not racist to say we can't take in the poverty of the world.

— Marine Le Pen

“Its time to think rehabilitation of poor people one by one.”

— Fuzael Ahmed

Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.

— Watchman Nee

I just want to reach back help pull people out of the poverty, the slums where we're stuck at.

— DeSean Jackson

“If you need money to be rich, you will always be poor.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Whatever you have chosen to be your priority, set a time to it and be focused on achieving it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index.

— Bob Tyrrell

Growing up without love, without being cared for, might be the worst type of poverty.

— Angela Rayner

“Whenever we lose time, we are actually losing our life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

— Jonathan Kozol

“There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.”

— Anonymous

“The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Your dream will only benefit humanity when you make it tangible by living it out.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Every human being is either wasting time, spending time or investing time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

— Matsuo Basho