Poverty Quotes

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

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.

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.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.