Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame,… — Unknown Author
Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty. — Napoleon Hill
They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have… — J C Watts
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a… — Walter E. Williams
A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes has… — Confucius
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor… — Eliot Engel
Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations. — Pervez Musharraf
The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty. — Margaret Thatcher
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths… — Margaret Thatcher
The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a… — Diane Ravitch
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea. — Nicholas D. Kristof
It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed. — Ela Bhatt
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. — Rutherford B. Hayes
I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the… — Caitlin Moran
So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those whose mothers could… — Germaine Greer
I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people who were in… — W. Eugene Smith
The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them.… — Benjamin Carson
Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier. — James Arthur Ray
May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the… — Brennan Manning
We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is,… — Peter Medawar
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that. — William Easterly
Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as… — Amartya Sen
If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life — O. Henry
The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban… — Michael Porter
Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity. — Orhan Pamuk

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