Poverty Quotes

"I didnt create poverty. This church didnt create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind."

A parents' dissatisfaction causes poverty and leads to humiliation.

He who practices moderation and frugality will never be threatened with poverty.

If poverty was a man, I would have slain him.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Come away; poverty's catching.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the not so very long run.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

The most powerful tool to lift families out of extreme poverty is to grant micro-loans to women.

Paying visits to ones own relatives prolongs the life of a person and prevents poverty and indigence.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls.

Of course, for a lot of people, death was a welcome change. Grinding poverty takes the edge off most things, including life.