Absence Quote by 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

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

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

“People ask, “Why is there poverty in the world?” It’s a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset…

— Jonah Goldberg

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly…

— Jeb Bush

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

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

— Helen Keller

To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it. And the structural causes are partially…

— Marco Rubio

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is…

— Jack Monroe

Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support…

— John Hope Bryant

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

— Colin Powell