Poverty Quotes

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

So many of us need so much less than we have, especially when so many of us are in need.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.

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

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they’re rapping. It’s easier to try to censor some kid who’s swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.