Poverty Quotes

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

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

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is true that global wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown and new poverty arisen.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various tropical diseases because of poor infrastructure, general levels of poverty don’t get treated. Syphilis untreated or not properly treated, which as it happens is a big problem as I hear, gets treated, the symptoms disappear but in fact… it … that impacts on the immune system. You’ve got to deal with these things.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

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

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

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.

Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.