Causes Quote by Walter E. Williams

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 average Egyptian has an income level of around 12 percent of the average citizen of the United States and can expect to live…

— Daron Acemoğlu

While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they…

— Dalia Mogahed

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 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 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

Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently…

— Saint Francis de Sales

“Whether it is North Korea, Sierra Leone, or Zimbabwe, well show that poor countries are poor for the same reason that Egypt is poor.…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

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

— Colin Powell

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 is everywhere, but in Africa, there is more.

— Michael Essien