Cause Of Poverty Quotes

#1. I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.

Pope Francis

#2. The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Michael Parenti

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

Colin Powell

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#5. First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

Henry Louis Gates

#6. The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.

Henry B. Eyring

#7. Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.

Peter Eigen

#8. If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.

Richard John Neuhaus

#9. The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

Alan Cohen

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Henry Hazlitt

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

Helen Keller

#13. Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Lester B. Pearson

#14. Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root cause of conflict, many states, ironically, increase their military might in order to control increasingly desperate populations.

Oscar Arias

#16. The first remedy or prevention is to remove, by all means possible, that material cause of sedition whereof we spake; which is, want and poverty in the estate.

Francis Bacon

#17. Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.

S. Azmat Hassan

#18. The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.

Ludwig Von Mises

#19. Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

Peter Kropotkin

#20. Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the people. We have made war upon it, and we mean to win it. If we can, we will win through the ballot box; if not, then we shall resort to sterner means.

William H. Sylvis

#21. His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.

Hannah Arendt

#22. Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.

Matthew Desmond

#23. I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which is actually hostile to the cause of living wages. Women need equal wages to men, but not equal wages at poverty.

Jill Stein

#24. ...poverty is the cause of many compromises.

Jean Rhys

#25. Pecuniary embarrassment, he thought, was the cause of all evil to the blacks, for poverty kept them ignorant and their lack of enlightenment kept them degraded.

Carter G. Woodson

#26. The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

Napoleon Hill

#27. Behind the world's most difficult problems are people - groups of people who don't get along together. You can blame crime, war, drugs, greed, poverty, capitalism or the collective unconscious. The bottom line is that people cause our problems.

Zaid Hassan

#28. Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Rush Limbaugh

#29. The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can't worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half

Michael Crichton

#30. Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

John O. Brennan

#31. The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Edward Bellamy

#32. Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#33. The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

Frances Moore Lappe

#34. To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.

Samuel Johnson

#35. Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.

William Cowper

#36. The way we treat animals is the root cause of all the human suffering in the world, from poverty, starvation, disease, and war to lack of clean air and water, not to mention all the varied forms of human emotional and spiritual suffering.

Sharon Gannon

#37. That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a mass of things are made which are of no use to anybody, and with which nothing can be done).

Leo Tolstoy