poverty Quotes

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.