I leave you the best quotes about poverty from great historical figures like Confucius, Adam Smith, Oscar Wilde, Nelson Mandela, Jean-Paul Sartre, Immanuel Kant, George Orwell, Bill Gates, George Bernard Shaw and many more.
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-As long as poverty, injustice and inequality exist in our world, none of us can really rest. -Nelson Mandela.
-The hunger for love is more difficult to eliminate than the hunger for bread. -Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
-In a well-governed country, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a poorly governed country, wealth is something to be ashamed of. -Confucius.
-Poverty deprives man of all spirit and virtue. It is difficult for an empty bag to stay upright. -Benjamin Franklin.
-Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. –Kofi Annan.
-Poverty is like a punishment for a crime that you did not commit. –Eli Khamarov.
-Having been poor has nothing shameful, but being ashamed of it is. —Bejamin Franklin.
-Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. –Maimonides.
-The imbalance between the rich and the poor is the oldest and most fatal disease of all the republics. -Plutarch.
-No poor person can praise God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. –Woodrow Wilson.
-If a free society cannot save those who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. -John F. Kennedy.
-There are people so hungry in this world that God cannot appear in front of them except in the form of bread. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-The wars of nations are made to change the maps. But wars of poverty are waged to generate change. -Muhammad Ali.
-Poverty is good in terms of poems, maxims and sermons, but very bad for practical life. –Henry Ward Beecher.
-The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich man can never forget her. –GK Chesterton.
-Poverty is the precedent of revolution and crime. -Aristotle.
-Poverty is the worst form of violence. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-Poverty is the stepmother of genius. –Josh Billings.
-A hungry man is not a free man. –Adlai Stevenson.
-We are not rich because of what we have, but because of what we can do without all of it. –Immanuel Kant.
-If the misery of poor people is not caused by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. -Charles Darwin.
-The greatest of evils, and the worst of crimes, is poverty. Our first duty, a duty for which every other consideration must be sacrificed, is not to be poor. –George Bernard Shaw.
-The belief that the world is getting worse and that we cannot solve extreme poverty and disease is not only wrong. It is also dangerous. –Bill Gates.
-Poverty frees you from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from working. –George Orwell.
-Almost half of the world's population lives in rural regions and in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary causes of discomfort, and in some parts of the world, even for violence. –APJ Abdul Kalam
-Poverty frequently turns the milk of human kindness into bile. –Eliza Cook.
-When the rich declare war, it is the poor who die. –Jean-Paul Sartre.
-The lack of education, old age, poor health and discrimination, all these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is by going against its roots. –Robert Kennedy.
-Who, being loved, is poor? -Oscar Wilde.
-As society advances, the level of poverty increases. –Theodore Parker.
-The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. –Adam Smith.
-The poor need a friend to help them end poverty. -Unknown author.
-If you are in trouble, you are hurt or you have need, go to the poor people. They are the only ones who will help you. The only ones. –John Steinbeck.
-A broad, robust and well-resourced education is one of the best ways out of poverty, and a path to prosperity. –Randi Weingarten.
-Blessed are the poor in spirit, since their kingdom is the kingdom of heaven. -Jesus of Nazareth.
-The tragedy of the poor is that they cannot afford anything except self-denial. -Oscar Wilde.
-Education can lift individuals out of poverty and guide them to fruitful careers. –Christine Gregoire.
-Is it easy enough to say that poverty is not a crime? No. If it were, men would not be ashamed of it. However, it is a mistake, and it is punished as such. A poor man is detested by everyone. –Jerome K. Jerome.
-The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. –Napoleon Bonaparte.
-I thank fate for having made me be born poor. Being poor taught me the value of things that are truly useful in life. –Anatole France.
-Anyone who has fought against poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. –James A. Baldwin.
-The feeling of loneliness and feeling unwanted is the most terrible poverty. -Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
-No family is enriched by earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage doesn't even lift a family out of poverty. –Jon Corzine.
-Painful poverty is better than bitter wealth. -Unknown author.
-One of the strangest things in life is that the poor, who need money most, are the ones who never have it. –Finley Peter Dunne.
-There is always more misery in the lower classes than there is humanity in the upper classes. –Victor Hugo.
-Poverty is the mother of crime. –Marco Aurelio.
-Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. –Henry David Thoreau.
-Material poverty is easily cured; poverty of soul, it is impossible to cure. –Michel de Montainge.
-Poverty makes you sad, as well as wise. –Bertolt Brecht.
-Being poor is a common condition… you are always afraid that the good things in life are temporary, that someone can take them away because you have no power beyond your own brute force to stop them. - Rick Bragg.
-Poverty was the biggest motivating factor in my life. -Jimmy Dean.
-It would be great if the poor could have at least half the money that is spent on studying them. –William E. Vaughn.
-Poverty does not necessarily imply violence. –Alberto Fujimori.
-We have literally grown up in fear of being poor. We detest anyone who wishes to be poor to simplify and save their inner life. If he does not want to join the rest of those who want to make money, we label him discouraged and unambitious. –William James.
-You cannot eliminate the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. –Henry Ward Beecher.
-We cannot afford to spend millions and millions on nuclear weapons, when poverty and unemployment surround us. –Lal Bahadur Shastri.
-Poverty is not a disgrace, but it is terribly convenient. –Milton Berle.
-Work is the best cure for poverty, that is why economic development and job creation should be the main focus. –Luther Strange.
-Within certain limits, it is certainly true that the less money you have, the less you worry. –George Orwell.
-Focusing your life only on the generation of wealth denotes a certain poverty of ambition. It asks very little of yourself. Because only when you focus on something bigger than yourself do you realize your true potential. -Barack Obama.
-Money is better than poverty, only for financial reasons. -Woody Allen.
-Since poverty has been reduced to terms of mere survival, it has become deeper in terms of our way of life. –Raoul Vanegeim.
-Living with Jesus Christ is living with the poor. Living with the poor is living with Jesus Christ. –Jean Vanier.
-It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks of earning a living. –Jean-Jacques Rosseau.
-The poor could not be able to live at all if it were not for the poor. –George Moore.
-Being unwanted and neglected by people is a hunger of greater dimensions, a much greater poverty compared to that of the person who has nothing to eat. -Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
-I want to declare war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism and crime. –Nicolás Sarkozy.
-We are not worried about the poorest. They are unthinkable, and only approachable by statisticians or poets. –EM Forster.
-Poverty consists of feeling poor. –Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, and its poverty, by how little it can feel. –Sherrilyn Kenyon.
-Poverty is an anomaly for rich people. It is very difficult for them to conceive why these people do not ring a bell when they want to have dinner. –Walter Bagehot.
-Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. –Madonna.
-It is very expensive to give poor health care to poor people in a rich country. –Paul Farmer.
-Poverty implies fear and stress, and sometimes depression. It knows thousands of humiliations and difficulties. Getting out of poverty on your own is something to be proud of, but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. –JK Rowling
-A man who has nothing can whistle in front of the bandit's face. –Juvenal.
-Poverty is a very complex problem, but feeding a child is not. –Jeff Bridges.
-Poverty does not belong to a civilized human society. Its proper place is in the museum. –Muhammad Yunus.
-The gratitude is wealth, and the complaints poverty. –Doris Day.
-If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and lack of respect, terrorism will continue to exist. -Jodie Evans.
-History is written by the rich, and so then the poor always receive all the blame. –Jeffrey D. Sachs.
-A poor man with nothing in his stomach needs hope and illusion more than bread. –Georges Bernanos.
-You cannot get rid of poverty simply by giving money to people. –PJ O'Rourke.
-The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty. –Miriam Defensor-Santiago.
-With poverty, everything becomes horrible. –Nicolas Boileau.
-You may be poor, your shoes may be broken, but your mind is a palace. –Frank McCourt.
-Where justice is denied, poverty is imposed, ignorance prevails and any other class makes society feel like an organized conspiracy to oppress, steal and degrade people, neither the people nor their property will be safe. –Frederick Douglas.
-Poverty keeps more houses together than it divides. –Saki.
-I am a poor man, but I have this consolation. I am poor by accident, not by design. –Josh Billings.
-Luxury ruins republics; and poverty to monarchies. –Charles de Montesquieu.
-Feel like a broken engine, with no wheels to drive. Everyone has felt depressed and lonely. You know how a poor man feels. –Bob Marley.
-I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like a homeless man who shows me his poverty, both are waiting for alms. The rich man expects alms from my envy, and the poor man alms from me. - Ben Hecht
-Save our planet, lift people out of poverty, accelerate economic growth… That, this and that are the same struggle. –Ban Ki-moon.
-An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. -Albert Einstein.
-Poverty does not come from the diminution of wealth, but from the multiplication of desires. -Plato.
-I like to live poor, but with a lot of money. -Pablo Picasso.
-The way in which the great mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. -Friedrich Engels.
-When poverty enters the door, love jumps out the window. -Johh Hessin Clarke.
-If poverty is the mother of crimes, lack of spirit is its father. -Jean de la Bruyere.
-Being poor and independent is an almost impossible thing. -William Cobbett.
-The best limit for money is the one that does not allow you to fall into poverty or get too far from it. -Lucio Anneo Seneca.
- Stealing from a poor man is a more serious crime than robbing a rich man, because the poor will notice the damage more. -Thomas Hobbes.
-A poor relative is always a distant relative. -C. Alfred D'Houdetot.
-In truth I tell you that the one who has the least is the most free; blessed be the little poverty. -Friedrich Nietzsche.
-Recognizing poverty does not dishonor a man, but not making any effort to get out of it. -Tucidides.