Poverty Quotes

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish Prove

The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty.

Nelson Rockefelle

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

Greek

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace, Odes

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin

The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid poverty.

Mark Twain, Greatly Exaggerated

People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.

Jewish Prove

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Theresa

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

D. A. Battista

In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives.

Japanese Prove

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Johnson

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

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