Country Quote by Eric Garcetti

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of…

— Johan Norberg

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty is just a state of mind,

— Rahul Gandhi

Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance.

— Ore Abayomi

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse…

— Washington Irving

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it…

— Muhammad Yunus

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little'…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're able to…

— Matthew Desmond

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

— H. L. Mencken

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

— Pope Francis

Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,…

— Muriel Barbery