Quotes about poverty
poverty traveler robbers
The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.] Juvenal
poverty needs satisfied
[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace. Richard P. Feynman
poverty extravagance corruption
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption. Samuel Johnson
poverty offers
I offer you what I have my Poverty W. S. Merwin
poverty consumerism overconsumption
All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me. Saint Augustine
poverty wealth train
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty. Walter Savage Landor
poverty good-company company
Oh, poverty parts good company. Walter Scott
poverty inevitable dependence
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
poverty bitterness curse
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. George Gissing
poverty wealth recommendations
Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation. Napoleon Hill
poverty charity pleading
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
poverty entrepreneurship poor
Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship. Pierre Omidyar
poverty true-freedom persist
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom. Nelson Mandela
poverty equalizer
Poverty is a great equalizer John Grisham
poverty nowhere-to-go nowhere-to-go-but-up
I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. Kirk Douglas
poverty rich poor
Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them. Josh Bernstein
poverty haiti desperate
Haiti is in desperate poverty. Pat Robertson
poverty circumstances
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. Pam Grier
poverty disgrace inconvenient
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient. Milton Berle
poverty way measuring
There is no good way of measuring poverty. Milton Friedman
poverty remember moments
there are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are ... Nancy Mitford
poverty wealth crime
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. Mark Twain
poverty complaints
Complaint is poverty. Mary Baker Eddy
poverty unnecessary finance
Poverty is unnecessary. Muhammad Yunus
poverty resources nothing-new
There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it. Martin Luther King, Jr.
poverty income prove
I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
poverty dread
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty. Publilius Syrus
poverty poor manners
You lose your manners when you're poor. Lillian Hellman
poverty rich knows
The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
poverty poor feels
Few save the poor feel for the poor.
poverty way kind
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being. Oprah Winfrey
poverty poor method
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise. Oliver Goldsmith
poverty sin circumstances
Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed. Katie Davis