Top Poverty Quotes

Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction...

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.

While others allow failure to define them, othersallow lack or abundance to define them. You cannot define yourself that way! You may have failed in the past but that is not the end of the world. You...

Or maybe he means in a richer world the begging population is melting away. But no to that too. So maybe, perhaps, he means there aren't many 'human beings' left to look, see, and understand well enou...

Indigence is one of those states, politicians less likely wish to manage.

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

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.

The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you're poor. Look! Everybody's poor, i discovered it when i realized that its not ev...

The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.

Poverty is unnecessary.

If you are lazy, then undoubtedly you will soon become poor

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was the ruler o...

Waking up every cold morning is always a problem especially now it's raining daily but I thank God for Proverbs 24:33 which says "...A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to...

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.