Top Poverty Quotes

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

Poverty Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

(n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty sickness and captivity would without this comfort be insupportable.

Poverty is the origin of invention

I take from the poor and give to the rich. They just happen to be the same individuals. Poor and stupid before they learn from me and pay with their time and money, but rich and successful after they...

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Poverty should first be addressed in the mind because even if you give millions to a poor person, until there's a change of mindset, they will still remain the same.

Poverty is unnecessary.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, po...

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!

Habits are the determinant of who will be rich or be poor.

Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.

This time is very important in your life because God wants to lift this generation from failures, poverty, and unbelief

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old accountable for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high of...

A non handicapped person who relies on mendicity has allowed poverty to monopolised his destiny.

The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For whom should the government be? For educated people or few others. Government should be for the poor. If...

In the same essay, Said (who is reviewing Peter Stansky and William Abrams, co-authors obsessed with the Blair/Orwell distinction) congratulates them on their forceful use of tautology:This is rather...

But apparently you don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the cruel irony that prosperity is shrinking the...