Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing… — John F. Kennedy
What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel. — Hugo Chavez
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business… — William Carlos Williams
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and… — Rush Limbaugh
If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has… — Unknown Author
The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. — Edward Bellamy
In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy. — Giovanni Boccaccio
The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me… — Sonia Sotomayor
No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty. — Wallace D. Wattles
If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face… — Ernest Holmes
I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school. — Malala Yousafzai
We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never… — Robert Mugabe
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. — Democritus
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed… — Victor Hugo
South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the… — Nelson Mandela
Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty. — Ban Ki-moon
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight. — Ban Ki-moon
Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not… — Muhammad Yunus
Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs… — Muhammad Yunus
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself. — Diogenes
Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts… — Rush Limbaugh
[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on… — Marsilio Ficino
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. — Leo Tolstoy
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from… — Bertrand Russell
I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption… — Benigno Aquino III

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