Poverty Quotes

"Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket." "To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself" "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich" "Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache" "I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." "If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you." "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime" "Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters" "It is not a hyperbole to say that the poor are enslaved by their poverty and the middle classes that they have bought into a myth about themselves" "History will judge societies and governments and their institutions not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and powerful but how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless" "The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." "Poverty alleviation is an essential task in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects" "The lack of money is the root of all evil." "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor " "The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty" "The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations" "No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable" "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor " "The primary difference between the rich and the poor is how they handle fear"