Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and… — Howard Schultz
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. — Stuart Wilde
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were… — Oprah Winfrey
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe… — Muhammad Yunus
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. — Muhammad Yunus
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will… — Muhammad Yunus
I have come to believe, deeply and firmly, that we can create a poverty free world if we want to. I came to this conclusion… — Muhammad Yunus
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. — Samuel Johnson
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all — Evita Peron
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

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