Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism. — Robert D. Kaplan
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and… — Gordon Parks
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them. — Teresa of Avila
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble
Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from… — Orison Swett Marden
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches. — William Cobbett
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there… — Moss Hart
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is… — Gough Whitlam
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss… — Wangari Maathai
Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation. — Ban Ki-moon
I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A… — Ban Ki-moon
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other… — Elie Wiesel
We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with… — Margaret Sanger
The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty. — Emma Goldman
Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls. — Antisthenes
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its… — Horace
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography… — Bryan Stevenson
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life;… — Clarence Darrow
I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If we… — Harry A. Blackmun
We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty — Barack Obama
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the… — Aneurin Bevan
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th… — Alfred Marshall

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