Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

There's no nobility in poverty. — Jordan Belfort
Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the… — Charles Spurgeon
When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This helps overcome poverty,… — Helen Clark
My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty. — Kirk Douglas
Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors. — Dave Foley
For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically. — Jen Hatmaker
A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future. — Aga Khan IV
For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the… — Aristotle
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris.… — Barack Obama
The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to… — Thomas Merton
Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not… — Mother Teresa
Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty… — Leo Tolstoy
There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.… — Aga Khan IV
Poverty - the one thing money can't buy — John Cooper Clarke
We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ. — Pope Francis
Every literate woman is a victory over poverty — Ban Ki-moon
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. — Anzia Yezierska
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official… — Bernie Sanders
Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country. — Olusegun Obasanjo
There are organizations like Southern Poverty Law Center, there are some private investigators that work for the Republican Establishment, that actually use technology to hack… — Matt Shea
My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot… — Joseph Howe
An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of… — John Hospers
It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty. — Dan Gillerman
To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy… — Clare Short
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease. — Pope Benedict XVI

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