Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism. — Unknown Author
Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of… — Keith Ferrazzi
Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they… — Unknown Author
Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many… — Unknown Author
We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health — Thoraya Obaid
The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at the… — Linda McQuaig
The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance.… — Duane Elgin
Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger… — Riane Eisler
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. — Plato
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are… — Vikas Swarup
Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything. — Publilius Syrus
A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . .… — Victoria Moran
Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty. — Jacqueline Novogratz
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and… — Jacqueline Novogratz
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity. — Leonard Ravenhill
Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it. — Anais Nin
It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality… — Unknown Author
But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in… — Bertrand Russell
Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so it destroys the… — Mother Teresa
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is… — Grover Cleveland
First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men. — Ginny Brown-Waite
Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous… — Grace Napolitano
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now. — Scott D. Cook
Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty. — Zoe Lofgren

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