Poverty Quotes

"Though you are poor, do not behave in a servile manner" "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization" "Matilda said It's no good being poor How can she stop us from packing off to America But that's just what she's done She's come along and ruin everything" "The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty" "He who has nothing—it has been well said—has no fear " "Content makes poor men rich Discontent makes rich men poor" "The country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor" "I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing." "A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty." "The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others." "When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door." "The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, so many children without education, so many poor persons." "We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance." "The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: The rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left" "Solutions to poverty must come from within the community" "I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade" "While poverty persists, there is no true freedom." "Poverty in democracy is as much to be preferred to so-called prosperity under despots, as freedom to slavery." "No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth." "It is not the man with too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more."