Choices Quote by Johan Norberg

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

— Peter Singer

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

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them…

— Pope Francis

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white;…

— Kathleen Blanco

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

I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It's not just a material thing; it's a psychological thing that we have no…

— Eric Garcetti

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

— Anna Brownell Jameson

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

— Benjamin Franklin

“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in…

— Dean Karlan

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

— Amartya Sen

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

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

— Amartya Sen