Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice. — Millicent Fenwick
Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet,… — Unknown Author
I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe… — Lateefah Simon
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness… — Unknown Author
I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our… — Clare Short
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. — Paul Hawken
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. — George Gissing
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a… — Ernestine Rose
Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar of the world for the… — Lottie Moon
In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of… — Omar Bongo
Poverty leads to hardship and failure. — Irwin Redlener
Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments. — Irwin Redlener
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty. — Irwin Redlener
An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment. — Michio Kushi
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice,… — C L R James
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty… — Harri Holkeri
Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden. — D.E. Stevenson
There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business. — Matthew Lesko
Befriending provides a valuable lifeline to many people who feel isolated in their communities often as a result of ill health or poverty. I would… — Charles Kennedy
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Riches without faith are the greatest poverty. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. — John Powell
Come out to view / the truth of flowers blooming / in poverty. — Matsuo Basho

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