Poverty Quotes

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Who, being loved, is poor?

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.

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

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream
Harry Kemp

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Poverty wants few things, avarice everything.
Bartholomew of San Concordio

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

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Real poverty is lack of books

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
Andrew Cuomo

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Being poor is a little like having an earache over a Bank Holiday. All you can think about is the pain and how long it will be before a healing hand can be found to take away the anguish.







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