Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on… — Rush Limbaugh
I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel! — R. G. LeTourneau
The Democrats need poor, dependent people if they're gonna stay in business. And if we don't have enough poverty at home, we'll import it. That's… — Rush Limbaugh
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged… — Lewis H. Lapham
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to… — Banksy
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just… — Gordon Brown
Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk… — Jonathan Dimbleby
We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe… — Hilary Benn
A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty — Thabo Mbeki
Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at… — Tony Blair
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own… — Ann Radcliffe
The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty. — Napoleon Hill
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is… — Jorge Luis Borges
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits… — Shirley Chisholm
Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. — Thomas Jefferson
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. — Daniel Defoe
Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated? — Arundhati Roy
One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty… — Mohsin Hamid
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in… — Will Durant
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty… — Hannah Arendt
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty. — Unknown Author
Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams. — Novak Djokovic

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