Quotes about Poverty

44 quotes about Poverty

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be...

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

Quote by Confucius about poverty

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about poverty

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and...

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about poverty

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very...

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about poverty

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Quote by Aristotel about poverty

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about poverty

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about poverty

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about poverty

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter...

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Quote by Albert Camus about poverty

When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, ...

When you go to areas that have poverty of that level, you're ready to feel shocked and some degree of shame, coming in as a rich westerner.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about poverty

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure...

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Quote by Henry Ford about poverty

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.

Quote by Don Johnson about poverty

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are...

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Quote by Juvenal about poverty

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty...

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about poverty

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to...

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Quote by Thomas Paine about poverty

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about poverty

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Quote by Theodore Parker about poverty

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