poverty Quotes

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.