Poverty Quotes

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

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

Jewish Prove

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.

Mother Teresa

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

Kin Hubbard

True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish Prove

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Henry Fielding

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

Greek

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

Author Unknown

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

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

R. D. Hitchcock

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace, Odes

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Kahlil Gibran