Poverty Quote by Arundhati Roy

“He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again.”

— Belinda Alexandra

“I wish everyone had enough to eat and drink including the poor.”

— Charles Obutte

“Poor as the poor I cling, like them, to humiliating hopes; like them, each day I nearly kill myself just to live.”

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

“Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to…

— Hannah Kent

“I take from the poor and give to the rich. They just happen to be the same individuals. Poor and stupid before they learn…

— Robin Sacredfire

“The poor have nothing and the rich need nothing, and if you eat nothing, you will die.”

— Adrienne Woods

“It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.”

— John Connolly

“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”

— Anthony Liccione

“There's something impoverished in those who want to really have everything.”

— Paul Scheerbart

“I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed to be.…

— Shannon A. Thompson

“They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.”

— Andreï Makine