Poverty Quote by George Orwell

“Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.”

— Anthony Liccione

“Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world. ”

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

— Pearl S. Buck

“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

“In all my travels I saw very little real poverty, I mean the grinding terrifying poorness of the Thirties. That at least was real…

— John Steinbeck

“…poverty is not interesting, either to the poor or to the rich. It is the curse of the decent poor to be so utterly…

— Earl Shorris

“Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to…

— Hannah Kent

“Most poverty is a lack of opportunity.”

— Adam LiVecchi

“Poverty is a giant, it uses your face like a mop to wipe away the world's garbage.”

— Celine

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Nicky Verd

“Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.”

— Stephen Richards