Affluence Quote by Louis O. Kelso

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

— Helen Keller

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go…

— Robert Kennedy

poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the…

— Jane Jacobs

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

— Kofi Annan

Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of…

— Clarence Darrow

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

— James Wolfensohn

Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds…

— Samuel Johnson

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

— George Soros

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

— Colin Powell