Quotes on Poverty

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

Author: Dennis Banks

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

Author: John Berger

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

Author: Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Author: Bertolt Brecht

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Author: H. Brown

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

Author: H. Brown

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

Author: Edgar Burroughs

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Author: Henry Fielding

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Author: Alberto Fujimori

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Author: Jerry Garcia

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

Author: George Gissing

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

Author: Paul Hawken

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Author: Mathieu Kerekou

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

Author: Mathieu Kerekou

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Author: Jack Klugman

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

Author: Aleksandr Kuprin

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

Author: Ricardo Lagos

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

Author: Daniel Leon

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Author: Sophia Loren

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

Author: Loretta Lynn

Affluence creates poverty.

Author: Marshall McLuhan

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Author: Hannah More

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

Author: Gordon Parks

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

Author: Jean Paul

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

Author: Martin Perl

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

Author: Antonio Porchia

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Author: John Powell

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

Author: Lewis Preston

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

Author: Nelson Rockefeller

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

Author: Bernie Sanders

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Author: Deng Xiaoping

Poverty is unnecessary.

Author: Muhammad Yunus

Success is not defined by the size of one's bank account, but by the richness of one's soul.

Author: Maya Angelou