Poverty Quotes

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved." "Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat." "Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism." "I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money." "Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change." "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." "Having nothing, nothing can he lose." "They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor." "You know it's funny when it rains it pours, they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor." "I used to have horrible cars because I never had money" "The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money" "To them, poverty is the family tradition" "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons" "No one has ever become poor by giving." "When the rich make war, it's the poor that die" "The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs" "Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity." "No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses." "If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake." "When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die."