Top Poverty Quotes

While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enou...

True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty.

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.

Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is?

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, pr...

Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.

challenges are everywhere. Awake! challenge and defeat the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way and be not be defeated by the challenges that challenge you in a challenging way

The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing a...

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?

There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.

Let these men sing out their songs,they've been walking all day long,all their fortune's spent and gone...silver dollar in the subway station;quarters for the papers for the jobs.

When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.

Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.

Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.