Poverty Quotes

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances. It is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Samuel Johnson

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

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

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