Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more… — Pericles
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. — George Bernard Shaw
Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because… — Van Jones
Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men can realize their… — Anwarul Karim Chowdhury
Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is… — Dennis Kucinich
Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they cannot produce anything… — Walter E. Williams
Like so many liberal icons, Marx seldom bathed and left his wife and children in poverty. As Schlafly says, no wonder liberal women think men… — Ann Coulter
The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the… — Franklin P. Adams
The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and… — E F Schumacher
It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to highlight the need… — Unknown Author
As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalised adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and… — Koichiro Matsuura
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies- or to help the world's most desperate - the AIDS orphan in Uganda,… — Condoleezza Rice
I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman… — Margaret Fuller
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort,… — Dalai Lama
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all… — Plato
It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is so full of… — Robert Holden
Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling in the dust.… — Unknown Author
The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution… — Unknown Author
We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound… — Bob Proctor
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Plato
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty. — Publilius Syrus
Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. — Apuleius
Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that… — Gregory of Nazianzus
Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not. — Publilius Syrus

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