Poverty Quotes

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

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.

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

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

Poverty affects people of all races.

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.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.