Poverty Quote by Ivan Illich

“P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition…

— Ivan Illich

Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices.

— Winnie Byanyima

Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common…

— Martin Sheen

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

— Publilius Syrus

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

— Benjamin Franklin

We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed…

— William James

“Poverty is a powerful motivator”

— David shamala

“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 not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with unhealthy environmental…

— Uzoma Nnadi

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

— Nicky Verd