Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty. — Chiranjeevi
Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we… — John Thomas Sladek
The poor are only they who feel poor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this… — Benjamin Carson
For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and… — Fawzia Koofi
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate peoples into a state of poverty,… — Pope Clement VIII
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its… — Walter Lippmann
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly… — Eric Hoffer
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people… — Charles Lamb
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had… — Oscar Wilde
The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude. — Mencius
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police. — Langston Hughes
And when you're poor, you grow up fast. — Billie Holiday
... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. — Bertrand Russell
We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence. — William Allen White
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. — Antonio Porchia
On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when… — Peter Kreeft
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more. — Seneca the Younger
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich. — Seneca the Younger
For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions… — Aldous Huxley
The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within,… — Susanne Katherina Langer
Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition. — Dick Gregory

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