Poverty Quotes

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

Honore de Balzac

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Theodore Parker

It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Mother Teresa

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Benjamin Franklin

I hope we realize that the people of New Orleans weren't just abandoned during the hurricane. They were abandoned long ago — to murder and mayhem in the streets, to substandard schools, to dilapidated housing, to inadequate health care, to a pervasive sense of hopelessness.

Barack Obama

George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us

Kanye West

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the not so very long run.

Dean Acheson

If poverty was a man, I would have slain him.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen

Paying visits to ones own relatives prolongs the life of a person and prevents poverty and indigence.

Jafar ibn Muhammad as-S

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls.

Antisthenes

Of course, for a lot of people, death was a welcome change. Grinding poverty takes the edge off most things, including life.

Tom Baker

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the not so very long run.

Dean Acheson

The most powerful tool to lift families out of extreme poverty is to grant micro-loans to women.

Begum Aga Khan

A parents' dissatisfaction causes poverty and leads to humiliation.

al-Hadi, Ali

He who practices moderation and frugality will never be threatened with poverty.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

Come away; poverty's catching.

Aphra Behn

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Sir Isaiah Berlin

Although it is foolish to believe that book learning is anything like the whole of education, it is always necessary, particularly in ages when there is a poverty of living examples of the possible high human types.

Allan David Bloom

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Giovanni Boccaccio

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

Jorge Luis Borges

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