Abandon Quote by Barack Obama

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out…

— Bono

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

— Tony Meloto

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our…

— Ann Radcliffe

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their…

— Aga Khan IV

“Poverty is no crime; always remember that. After all, why should we despair? Our present difficulties will pass away, and God will right us.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

— Tom Morello

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts…

— J. K. Rowling

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of…

— Charlie Chaplin

Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,…

— Muriel Barbery

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

— Irwin Redlener