Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the key to breaking… — Queen Noor of Jordan
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the… — Aristotle
I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what… — Mohsin Hamid
For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the… — John F. Kennedy
Poverty is the greatest violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it. — Julius Nyerere
Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as… — Muhammad Yunus
Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition… — Pope Francis
There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth… — Pope Francis
Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart. — Pope Francis
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty… — George Bernard Shaw
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty. — H. Rap Brown
My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and… — Rob Zombie
It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet… — Jean Baudrillard
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty. — Viktor Yanukovych
Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity. — Emmanuel Jal
Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty. — Raj Patel
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do… — Henry Hazlitt
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking… — Marvin Olasky
If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease… — William Godwin
There is no virtue in poverty. — Joseph Murphy
Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or… — Cal Thomas
In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we’ve undertaken… — Paul Romer

Who Wrote These Poverty Quotes

1,419 authors contributed a total of 2,493 Poverty Quotes, led by these top contributors: