Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. — Dallin H. Oaks
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment. — David A. Bednar
Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will… — T. B. Joshua
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. — C.S. Lewis
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff… — Banksy
The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can… — Van Jones
Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too? — Van Jones
One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing,… — Mother Teresa
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. — Joseph Stiglitz
The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty… — William Lloyd Garrison
People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the… — Brian Friel
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. — J P Donleavy
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an… — Oscar Wilde
The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people… — Rick Bragg
The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty. — Michael Parenti
A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost… — Philip Agee
Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape. — Michel Chossudovsky
Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor. — Michel Chossudovsky
Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses. — Michel Chossudovsky
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
Iwill always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose… — Joseph Pulitzer
The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.… — Edward Gibbon
I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a world which is… — Rajneesh

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