Poverty Quotes

The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty.

Nelson Rockefelle

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.

Bill Cosby

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

Author Unknown

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Mother Teresa

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Benjamin Franklin

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Herbert Simon, economist

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes - Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde wa

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 the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.

Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe

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

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