Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results. — David George
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction. — Aristotle
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One… — Plato
In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a… — Blanche Lincoln
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science… — Shimon Peres
Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what the country has… — Michelle Bachelet
As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many… — Nelson Mandela
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom. — Nelson Mandela
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums… — Pablo Picasso
The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if… — Glenn Greenwald
We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful… — Pope Francis
The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from… — Pope Francis
When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty. — Pope Francis
I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked,… — Mother Teresa
The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger… — Mother Teresa
When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who… — Mother Teresa
As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars. — Martin Luther
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless,… — Assata Shakur
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see… — Maxine Waters
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make… — Harry Browne
Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous. — Benny Hinn
Poverty comes from Hell. Prosperity comes from Heaven. Adam had complete dominion over the earth and all it contains. A. Adam could fly like a… — Benny Hinn
Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god. — John Hagee
You will never become rich, until you hate poverty — Mike Murdock
Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40… — Elizabeth Warren

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