Poverty Quotes

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

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

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.