Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Few save the poor feel for the poor. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. — George Orwell
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. — Samuel Johnson
Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule. — Juvenal
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make… — Emma Goldman
God oft hath a great share in a little house. — George Herbert
A person born with an instinct for poverty. — Elbert Hubbard
Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. — Anna Brownell Jameson
Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues. — Euripides
The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted. — Mother Teresa
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching. — Gilbert Highet
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he… — Gilbert Highet
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent… — Simone Weil
If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth. — John Lyly
You lose your manners when you're poor. — Lillian Hellman
Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with… — William O. Douglas
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die… — Jeremy Rifkin
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy… — Andrea Dworkin
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick? — Mary Wollstonecraft
Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that… — Marian Wright Edelman
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores… — Evita Peron
Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to… — Richard M. Nixon
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than… — Murray Kempton
Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience. — John Florio

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