Poverty Quotes

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Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. — William Hazlitt
A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected. — Samuel Johnson
It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich. — Juvenal
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous. — Juvenal
In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth. — Marc Chagall
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. — Homer
For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification… — Clare Short
Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty. — Jim Rohn
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with… — Hesiod
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule;… — Horace Walpole
A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers… — Clive James
If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life. — Arnold Bennett
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street… — Horace Greeley
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. — Alan Watts
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man. — Henry George
When you stick to the path of Truth and Righteousness, pain and poverty haunt you. But they are only clouds passing through the sky, hiding… — Sathya Sai Baba
The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of… — Che Guevara
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. — Unknown Author
We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in… — Nathaniel Branden
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and… — Benjamin Hooks
Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,. — Chris Patten
I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how… — Brad Pitt
Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be… — Leon Uris
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects… — George Gilder

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