Awful Quote by Emma Thompson

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I…

— Emma Thompson

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

— Jose Mujica

A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of…

— Thomas Dreier

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves…

— Muhammad Yunus

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked…

— Nicolas Sarkozy

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

— Amartya Sen

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

— Muhammad Yunus

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they…

— Muhammad Yunus

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

— Jose Mujica

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently…

— Samuel Johnson

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

— Seneca the Younger

Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to…

— Bob Torres