Capability Quote by Amartya Sen

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.

— David Bornstein

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima

Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support…

— John Hope Bryant

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse…

— Washington Irving

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth,…

— Alan Watts

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

— Rutger Bregman

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

— Barbara Ehrenreich

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come…

— Amy Sedaris

Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance.

— Ore Abayomi

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley