Quotes on poverty
It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.
Short, Clare
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
Heine, Heinrich
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
O'Rourke, P.J.
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
Khamarov, Eli
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
James, William
To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
Gandhi, Mahatma
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Aurelius, Marcus
Affluence creates poverty.
McLuhan, Marshall
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
James, William
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.
Malamud, Bernard
The poor are poor because the rich are rich.
Unknown, Author
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Allen, Woody
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Gardner, John W.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
Berger, John
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Kooning, Willem de
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Thoreau, Henry David
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Allen, Woody
Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.
Clinton, Bill