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...poverty is the cause of many compromises. — Jean Rhys

The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the rich from greed. — Maxim Gorky

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. — Plato

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being. — Abhijit V. Banerjee

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty. — Rand Paul

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years. — Muhammad Yunus

I've always found poverty a source of strength. — Stephen Frears

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak. — Pope Francis

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall ... his fortune melted to water. — Ihara Saikaku

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain. — Link Wray

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. — C.S. Lewis

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth. — Cullen Hightower

Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty. — Ann Cotton

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then. — Dennis Banks

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life — O. Henry

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty. — Hazrat Ali R.A

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty. — Michael Moore

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems. — Kailash Satyarthi

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms — John Steinbeck

I died last night. Seventy years too young. — Colin Thompson

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty. — Sherrod Brown

I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty. — Ricky Gervais

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence. — Rachel Lloyd

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening. — Daphne Zuniga

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes. — Dan Groat

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty — Ela Bhatt

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward. — Aristotle.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms. — Nelson Mandela

Poverty is being single. — M.F. Moonzajer

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together. — Marc Forne Molne

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth. — John Lyly

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. — Llewellyn Rockwell

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty. — Livy

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats. — Ronald Reagan

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force. — Sheryl WuDunn

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath. — Aristophanes

All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance - all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring in this? — Leo Tolstoy

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. — Harri Holkeri

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation. — Ban Ki-moon

Greed is the fast-track to poverty. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous — Benjamin Franklin

I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now. — Jeremy Camp

Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has. — Rita Gonzalez

When the purse becomes empty, the mind becomes full of issues. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty. — Matthew Desmond

The only real cure for poverty is production. — Henry Hazlitt

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul. — Edwin Markham

Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Peace is not the absence of poverty
But the presence of love for beauty — Debasish Mridha

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty. — Pope Francis

Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true. — Anita Shreve

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed. — A.J. Quinnell

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time. — Gary Shteyngart

And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth. — Mark Twain

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values. — Dan Quayle

Poverty's a chilly theme," he said; "let's take something to warm us before we go on with the variations. — John Meade Falkner

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg — Oscar Wilde

In poverty a man is alone. But with prosperity, He has many friends. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself. — Diogenes Of Sinope

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty. — Hank Johnson

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap. — Sherman Alexie

Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money. — P.Sainath

It was hard to tell a person's age when poverty had probably robbed them of good health a long time ago. — April White

The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

Poverty is the worst form of death. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Poverty with happiness is not a real poverty; richness with unhappiness is not a real richness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics. — Shimon Peres

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth! — Ambrose Bierce

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. — Anonymous

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously. — Pope Francis

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success. — Oscar Wilde

The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. — Bertrand Russell

Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on our next generation. — Matthew Desmond

Real poverty is about doing what you have to do as opposed to what you want. — Lionel Shriver

I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream. — Camille Paglia

Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty. — Christopher Marlowe

The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts. — Rhonda Byrne

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty. — Cedric Richmond

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty. — Michael Parenti

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will — William Shakespeare

Poverty affects people of all races. — Bill Bennett

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong. — Ernest Van Den Haag

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? — Muhammad Yunus

A thousand pounds for clothes
when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness. — John Climacus

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits. — John Calvin

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that. — William Easterly

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition. — Thomas Perez

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit. — William Barrett

Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all ... not by force, but by grace. — Vivian Amis

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. — Jeffrey Sachs

You attract poverty when you lack value for time — Sunday Adelaja

Let us go somewhere where we can do some genuine, blackguard, poverty-stricken drinking, with no false gingerbread glitter thrown over everything! — William Gibson

Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things. — Matthew Desmond