Poverty Quotes

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A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton
A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer. — Nikolai Gogol
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas. — Ernesto Sirolli
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed… — Unknown Author
All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me. — Saint Augustine
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and… — Geoffrey Chaucer
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often… — Samuel Johnson
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich,… — Lesslie Newbigin
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can… — David Shi
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community… — Charles Rangel
In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering… — David W. Orr
To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it. And the structural causes are partially cultural. — Marco Rubio
The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty. — Marco Rubio
The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't… — Robert Reich
Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom. — Joseph Stiglitz
Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future. — Tavis Smiley
Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world… — Honore de Balzac
So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop… — William Shakespeare
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought… — William James
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise. — Mark Twain
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from… — Charles Lamb

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