Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all. — Wallace D. Wattles
The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty. — Jaime Escalante
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom… — Chester Himes
Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a… — Randy Alcorn
Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the… — Zach Braff
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger… — Nicholas Negroponte
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him… — Margaret Cavendish
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by… — Ambrose Bierce
It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it… — Jesse Jackson, Jr.
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy. — Seneca the Younger
I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their action, the proclamation… — Pope Benedict XVI
Today, we are closer to fulfilling America's promise of economic and social justice because we stand on the shoulders of giants like Dr. King, yet… — Barack Obama
I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is… — Pope Francis
We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only… — Pope Francis
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard… — Thomas Paine
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human… — Walter Scott
I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped… — Alex Garland
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with… — Mencius
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our… — Jesmyn Ward
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. — Aminatta Forna
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy,… — Vinod Khosla
The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the… — John Kuhn
We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery. — Ahmed Sekou Toure
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent. — Douglas Lenat

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