Avarice Quote by C. S. Lewis

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

— Nelson Mandela

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

— Helen Keller

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it…

— Voltaire

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

— Ore Abayomi

Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is…

— Coretta Scott King

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

We live in a country with a vast majority of people below the poverty line. Our natural resources are limited and getting scarcer.

— Amala Akkineni

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

— Pope Benedict XVI

Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds…

— Samuel Johnson

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

— Marc Forne Molne

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill…

— Kurt Vonnegut