Poverty Quotes

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

Why, look at me. I’ve worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

How beautiful it would be if the poor could occupy in our hearts the place they have in the heart of God!

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.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

In the 55-60 years of their rule, the successive Congress government have only looted the country and plunged it into poverty, casteism, regionalism, terrorism, and naxalism.