Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity. — Amartya Sen
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the dynamic enterprise economy.… — Michael Novak
When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years. — Muhammad Yunus
Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free. — Nelson Mandela
If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion. — Richard John Neuhaus
Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare — Tony Juniper
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. — Michael Pollan
In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism. — Lester R. Brown
The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it… — Lester R. Brown
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the… — James Payn
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights… — Ronald Reagan
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see… — Alexander Hamilton
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each… — Arundhati Roy
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of chastity to love… — Mother Teresa
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way… — Cyril Connolly
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human… — John F. Kennedy
Poverty is not natural; it is man-made — Nelson Mandela
Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously. — Dillon Burroughs
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms… — Ben Hecht
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. — Horace
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach… — Daniel J. Boorstin
It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food… — Thomas Merton
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling… — Lord Byron
When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just… — Grace Lee Boggs
My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed… — Unknown Author

Who Wrote These Poverty Quotes

1,419 authors contributed a total of 2,493 Poverty Quotes, led by these top contributors: