Global economy Quote by Frances Varian

“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we…

— Matthew Desmond

“Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation.…

— Patrick Colquhoun

“Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night.”

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

“People ask, “Why is there poverty in the world?” It’s a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Poverty will make the best people bad, if it gets hard enough. Why there’s so much of it in the world, I’m sure I…

— George Gissing

“It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.”

— Pearl S. Buck

“If we’re all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we come up with,…

— Bob Torres

“There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“To fight the poverty, we must feel the poverty.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Poverty cannot be defeated unless you first defeat it in the mind.”

— Nicky Verd

“Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.”

— Paula Brackston