Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

He has committed the crime who profits by it — Seneca the Younger
Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason — Henry Fielding
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will — William Shakespeare
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live — William Shakespeare
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then… — William Shakespeare
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg — Oscar Wilde
Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment — David Lloyd George
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them,… — Mother Teresa
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was — Bernard Malamud
To a man with an empty stomach food is God — Mahatma Gandhi
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand — Woodrow Wilson
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… — Thomas Jefferson
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future — Colin Powell
The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it — Colin Powell
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such… — Colin Powell
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign — Frederik Willem de Klerk
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't… — Richard Bach
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee
In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less — Christian Nestell Bovee
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of… — Lewis H. Lapham
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak — Juvenal
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich,… — Kathleen Blanco

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