Quotes about poverty
poverty noble advantage
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. Friedrich Nietzsche
poverty littles possessed
Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!
poverty modern sermon-on-the-mount
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. George Bernard Shaw
poverty rich poor
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get. Geoffrey Chaucer
poverty sin
Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.] George Herbert
poverty spirit tender-is-the-night
It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life—it can be a superabundance of interest... F. Scott Fitzgerald
poverty morality ethics
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty. Fidel Castro
poverty world misery
It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. George Eliot
poverty rises slow truth worth
This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd Samuel Johnson
poverty program
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty. H. Rap Brown
poverty results wit
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. Jean de la Bruyere
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 dignity persons
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied. Hubert H. Humphrey
poverty avarice-greed ends
For avarice begins where poverty ends. Honore de Balzac
poverty cease avarice
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
poverty circumstances
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances. Pam Grier
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 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 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 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
poverty would-be problem
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty Oscar Wilde
poverty pity poor
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.