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

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve. — Laozi

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

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

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key! — Rumi

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The best investment for poverty elimination is education. — Debasish Mridha

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

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

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising. — Eric Alterman

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

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

Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty. — Assegid Habtewold

Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity. — Tom Morello

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

Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism. — Malala Yousafzai

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

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth. — Rush Limbaugh

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

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it. — Rohinton Mistry

It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived. — Margaret Mead

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties. — Victor Hugo

The biggest threat to authors in this age is not plagiarism or poverty, it's obscurity — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship. — William Hazlitt

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom. — Jose Andres

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty. — Dogen

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me. — Hunter S. Thompson

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul. — Pamela Moore

In this world there is one thing that is
more dangerous and scary than a tiger ...
and that is poverty and hunger. — Raj Kapoor

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots. — Eduardo Galeano

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information. — Frederik Willem De Klerk

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,
that is, poverty. — Samuel Johnson

Poverty is the lack of light. — Lucero Isaac

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

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty. — David Berliner

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise. — Oliver Goldsmith

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

Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior. — Ravi Zacharias

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. — Charles Dickens

I believe one reason that God allows poverty and suffering is so that His followers may demonstrate Christ's love, mercy, and comfort to [others]. — Billy Graham

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Our aid is work for the American people. — Rajiv Shah

Rather than being about money or material possessions as such, poverty is about the inability to participate actively in society. — Peter Townsend

Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one. — M.F. Moonzajer

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating. — Amelia Barr

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. — Kin Hubbard

We have the resources to allow everybody to live with dignity,; we have the technology to do it; what we don't have is yet another excuse! — Adriano Bulla

Haiti is in desperate poverty. — Pat Robertson

Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing. — Henri Nouwen

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. — Mark Twain

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. — Seneca The Younger

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you. — Ann Cotton

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one. — John Yarmuth

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion. — Radhanath Swami

Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent. — Melissa Jensen

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

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

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

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

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

I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have. — Muhammad Yunus

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Poverty is being single. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

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