Top 100 Poverty Is Quotes
#2. I've never subscribed to the notion that poverty is quaint or that isolation is somehow ennobling. And anyway, this is Rwanda. There is very little innocence left to lose.
Will Ferguson
#3. Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.
Theresa May
#4. Among the nation's 100 largest counties, the one where children face the worst odds of escaping poverty is the city of Baltimore, the study found.
Anonymous
#6. Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the way poverty is dealt with, the sheer number of dead bodies you see, it's all pretty overwhelming.
Henry Rollins
#7. I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools; I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy.
Nelson Mandela
#8. Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.
Kurt Vonnegut
#9. The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.
Wallace Stevens
#10. Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#12. But they had learned an important lesson about how defeating poverty is more difficult than it seems at first.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#13. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.
Ernest Hemingway,
#14. The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education
John Legend
#15. Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose.
Eric Haney
#16. Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head.
John Hope Bryant
#17. I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.
Roger McDonald
#18. The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.
Max Lucado
#19. It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.
Bill O'Reilly
#20. Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people's altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal one's own rottenness and moral poverty is only possible for a very vain, base, and nasty creature.
Anton Chekhov
#21. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Aristotle.
#24. Disease is certainly not a sin. And poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.
Katie J. Davis
#25. Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
Kathleen Blanco
#26. I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
Robert F. Kennedy
#27. Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.
Catherine Ponder
#28. Poverty is a disease that's cured by the medicine of money.
A. E. Hotchner
#29. Pain is a better teacher than pleasure.
Poverty is a better teacher than prosperity.
Failure is a better teacher than success.
Life is a better teacher than university.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#30. Poverty ... is already half-Christian by its very nature; it has everything to gain by a doctrine which makes so little of the present and the visible, and so much of the future and the unseen.
Henry Parry Liddon
#31. Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa
#32. Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas ... omnes artes perdocet.]
Plautus
#33. People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.
Mohnish Pabrai
#34. An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
Thucydides
#35. Those that think banks and governments are making them poor haven't seen the whole picture. Poverty is the act of trusting their system.
Robin Sacredfire
#36. The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.
Miriam Makeba
#37. Real poverty is about doing what you have to do as opposed to what you want.
Lionel Shriver
#38. Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.
Atul Gawande
#39. Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.
Betty Jane Wylie
#40. Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
Adam Davidson
#41. The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
Iqbal Quadir
#42. Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#44. It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. That which is enough is ready to our hands. He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
Seneca.
#45. Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#46. Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
Benjamin Haydon
#47. Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For building stable peace we must find ways to provide opportunities for people to live decent lives.
Muhammad Yunus
#48. In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Oscar Wilde
#49. The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.
James Wolfensohn
#51. Poverty is a human-engineered product per excellence. It results primarily from inequitable distribution of national revenues coupled with escalating levels of corruption and mismanagement of national resources.
Moutasem Algharati
#52. South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.
Mamphela Ramphele
#53. The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought.
George Orwell
#54. Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient
Milton Berle
#55. Poverty is poverty, whether the tool you work with is a pick-axe or fountain pen.
George Orwell
#56. The idea of black poverty is always presented as the outcome of white wealth, but what South Africa has is a poverty problem, not necessarily a black poverty problem because it is a largely black country.
Ferial Haffajee
#57. I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.
Mitt Romney
#58. Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.
Benny Hinn
#59. You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
Amy Sedaris
#60. The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.
E.F. Schumacher
#62. Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.
Saint Francis De Sales
#63. On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.
Mother Teresa
#65. The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.
Marco Rubio
#66. Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.
D.E. Stevenson
#67. Rather than being about money or material possessions as such, poverty is about the inability to participate actively in society.
Peter Townsend
#68. I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia. Wherever I go and find the environment of those who are living in poverty and resisting poverty is a great in which I have great comfort.
Harry Belafonte
#69. Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Khalil Gibran
#70. A photograph of poverty is not a photograph but it is a knife that sticks into the hearts of everyman who looks at it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.
Eric L. Haney
#73. Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
George Bernard Shaw
#74. Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
Deng Xiaoping
#75. Poverty is fundamentally about a lack of cash. It's not about stupidity," stresses
Rutger Bregman
#76. A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable
Thabo Mbeki
#77. The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.
John Calvin
#78. Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.
James Arthur Ray
#79. So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue.
Muhammad Yunus
#80. One thing is certain: Existence is overflowing. With everything it is luxurious. It is not a poor existence, no. Poverty is man's creation.
Osho
#81. They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.
Nicola Yoon
#82. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.
Nelson Mandela
#83. Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.
Ricardo Lagos
#85. Wherever a pain is, that's where the cure goes; wherever poverty is, that's where provision goes. Wherever a difficult question is, that's where the answer goes; wherever a ship is, water goes to it. Don't seek the water; increase your thirst, so water may gush forth from above and below.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#86. No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#87. We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia.
Evo Morales
#88. Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.
Cesar Chavez
#89. One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.
John Danilovich
#90. When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.
Sarah Kendzior
#92. The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
Samuel Johnson
#93. Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.
Theodore Roosevelt
#94. The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.
Jim Wallis
#95. The poorest man in a religious community is not necessarily the one who has the fewest objects assigned to him for his use. Poverty is not merely a matter of not having "things." It is an attitude which leads us to renounce some of the advantages which come from the use of things.
Thomas Merton
#96. The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
Colin Powell
#97. Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass
#98. The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.
Dolly Parton
