Poverty Quotes

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor" "No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable" "If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake." "No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses." "Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity." "The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs" "When the rich make war, it's the poor that die" "No one has ever become poor by giving." "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons" "To them, poverty is the family tradition" "The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money" "The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved." "I used to have horrible cars because I never had money" "You know it's funny when it rains it pours, they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor." "They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor." "Having nothing, nothing can he lose." "I may have been the best fighter, but I was also the poorest. I had never been able to afford a first-class mouthpiece to protect my teeth. I had to wait until other fighters finished so I could borrow their headgear, or their trunk or bandages." "Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change." "I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money." "Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism."