Poverty Quotes - page 3

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. (Jerome K. Jerome)

I argued more recently for a hypothecated wealth tax on very high earners to support the campaign against child poverty. Why shouldn't the super-rich be obliged to help the super-poor?

Anthony Giddens

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture-in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

Andrea Dworkin

I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Jerry Garcia

Money can't buy poverty.

Marty Feldman

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Muhammad Ali

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

Evita Peron

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Swami Sivananda

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. (George Farquhar)

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

Antonio Porchia

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The safest wealth is the poverty of needs.

Franz Werfel

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Jean Cocteau

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Josh Billings

I have no doubt that the elimination of poverty and deprivation is possible by 2020.

C.K. Prahalad

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

Stuart Wilde

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

Adam Schiff

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty. (Barbara Mikulski)

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.

Charles Bass

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

Harri Holkeri

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

Immanuel Velikovsky

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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