Community Quote by Charles Krauthammer

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

— Aminatta Forna

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

— Ronald Reagan

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

— Helen Keller

It was with the Industrial Revolution, as society plunged ever more eagerly into the conquest of material riches and bent all its energies to…

— Jacques Ellul

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

— Marco Rubio

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

— Kofi Annan

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

— Peter Kropotkin

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose…

— Adam Davidson

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart…

— Pope Francis

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick