Absence Quote by Jane Jacobs

There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty…

— Madsen Pirie

There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience…

— Madsen Pirie

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

— Helen Keller

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

— Colin Powell

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

— Jane Jacobs

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

— Plato

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

— Kofi Annan

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose…

— Adam Davidson

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth,…

— Alan Watts

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

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts…

— J. K. Rowling