Poverty's Quotes

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. — Harry Browne

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity. — Orhan Pamuk

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. — Jim Wallis

The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair. — Wallace Stevens

It's not the poverty of material abundance but the poverty of love makes life miserable. — Debasish Mridha

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. — Jim Yong Kim

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart. — Sam Rayburn

You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet. — Antonia Michaelis

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

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty. — Ann Veneman

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money". — Silvio Berlusconi

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty. — Malcolm Turnbull

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism. — Dennis Prager

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene. — Wallace Stevens

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty. — Jessica Jackley

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

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

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty. — Juvenal

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

You can rob from the poor to give to the rich. It's legal. — Marty Rubin

Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing. — Bertolt Brecht

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

It's the anarchy of poverty
delights me, the old
yellow wooden house indented
among the new brick tenements — William Carlos Williams

Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning. — David Bornstein

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

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty. — Eartha Kitt

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people — Ronald Reagan

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty. — George H. W. Bush

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

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

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

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

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

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

That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

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

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

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

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

Patches are a nun's jewels. — Marie Angelique Arnauld

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

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

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

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped. — Paula Modersohn-Becker

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation. — Jim Yong Kim

There's no logical connection between being smart and having money. — Christopher Langan

There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index. — Bob Tyrrell

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. — Thomas R. Kelly

Poor people can write. It's one of the few things poverty, and lack — Caitlin Moran

The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty. — Charles Emmerson

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty. — S. Truett Cathy

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi

Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty. — J.S.B. Morse

The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live — Agona Apell

Poverty is fundamentally about a lack of cash. It's not about stupidity," stresses — Rutger Bregman

if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone. — Pearl S. Buck

Light's all very well, brothers, but it's not easy to live with. — Mikhail Zoshchenko

The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose. — Russell Brand

Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland. — David Servant

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken. — Mike Huckabee

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty). — Warren Farrell

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right. — John Key

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected? — Janet Tashjian

I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty. — Phoolan Devi

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be. — Muhammad Yunus

Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich. — Jeffrey D. Sachs

Hunger quashes man's will to help his fellow man. — Kang Chol-Hwan

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins. — Chanakya

Poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished — W.S. Gilbert

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty. — Tupac Shakur

It's not enough to tackle just the symptoms of poverty. You have to tackle the causes of poverty. — George Osborne

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit. — David Byrne

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village. — Iqbal Quadir

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life. — Naveen Jain

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated. — Steve Perry

What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president? — Jon Stewart

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor. — Lenny Bruce

Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors. — Dinah Maria Mulock

Prescription for writer's block: fear of poverty. — Peter Mayle

Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness. — Moss Hart

Poverty is not just a headline, my love, it's a lived reality, on the ground - and education is at the heart of it." "I — Zadie Smith

It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S. — Jerry Brown

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success. — Will Self

In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism. — Lester R. Brown

One thing is certain: Existence is overflowing. With everything it is luxurious. It is not a poor existence, no. Poverty is man's creation. — Osho

The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration. — Beeban Kidron

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

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

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. — Frank McCourt

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty. — Loretta Lynn

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child. — Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse. — Bertolt Brecht

Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country. — Vicente Fox