Billions Quote by Tom Morello

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa,…

— Tran Duc Luong

I began to do documentary photographs of poverty which is very widespread in Indonesia. There's terrible poverty. These are people who have jobs, raise…

— James Nachtwey

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their…

— Aga Khan IV

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded…

— Ryan Dunn

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

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor…

— Anonymous

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

— Publilius Syrus

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.…

— Pericles

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

— Andrew Young