Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of… — Juan Somavia
Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business… — Laurent Lamothe
There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty. — Ray LaMontagne
Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross. — Ricardo Lagos
Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S.… — Damian Marley
I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you… — Louise Mensch
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it. — Rohinton Mistry
I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions… — N. T. Wright
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of… — Rowan Williams
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about… — Alden Nowlan
The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the… — Charles Derber
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates… — Horace
You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty — Roberto Benigni
In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by lack… — Mata Amritanandamayi
I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty. — Walter Inglis Anderson
I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because… — Jenny Eclair
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. — George Bernard Shaw
You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give.… — Bob Dylan
If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well… — Bertrand Russell
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San… — John Steinbeck
Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness. — Moss Hart
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no… — Robert Ardrey
I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty. — Loretta Lynn
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit… — Jonathan Sacks

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