P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Poverty is so concentrated because it is generational and, research shows, created with relentless intention.”
Source: Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
“Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.”
“Poverty is so time consuming, I don’t want to be poor anymore.”
Source: Lair Of The Monster
“Poverty is spiritual halitosis.”
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.”
Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
“Poverty is the center of the Gospel.”
“Poverty is the default, the original state. Prosperity, on the other hand, the kind where there’s so much gold you don’t even know how to spend it and end up hiding chests of it underground, can only be achieved with a single trick. Crime. It’s always crime. Crime is the secret sauce, the finger-licking good one.”
Source: Inferno's Silence
“Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.”
“Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.”
“Poverty is the events of forced separation of mass from the nature. Poverty is not the cause but the outcome. Poverty is not natural, it is created, it is abnormal, unexpected and unwanted. Its was never part of the nature and never will be. Poverty has been engineered by few Unwise, irresponsible and selfish individuals.”
“Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.”
“Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.”
“Poverty is the greatest cause of terrorism.”
“Poverty is the greatest violence.”
“Poverty is the lack of light.”
“Poverty is the mother of all revolutions”
“Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly.”
Source: Death on Gokumon Island
“Poverty is the mother of crime.”
“Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.”
“Poverty is the origin of invention”
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens
“Poverty is the root of all evil.”
“Poverty is the step-mother of genius.”
Source: Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor
“Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“Poverty is the ultimate freedom. You can't rob someone who has no possessions. You can't insult a person without pride.”
Source: A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
“Poverty is the worst form of death.”
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
“Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.”
Source: The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World
“Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.”
“Poverty is unnecessary.”
“Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.”
“Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squatter camp.Matsime Simon Mohapi”
Source: Poverty in the Land of Riches - South Africa
“Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.”
“Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.”
Source: Advice to Young Men - And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
“Poverty isn't simply the condition of not having enough money. It's the condition of not having enough choice, and being taken advantage of because of that. When we ignore the role that exploitation plays in trapping people in poverty, we end up designing policy that is weak at best and ineffective at worst.”
Source: Poverty, by America
“Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.”
“Poverty isn’t solved with donations.”
“Poverty leads to hardship and failure.”
“Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.”
“Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.”
Source: The golden apples of the sun
“Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.”
Source: The Cape Ann: A Novel
“Poverty makes for a dull head”
Source: The Wild Geese
“Poverty makes it's home in wealth”
Source: Fell the last passenger
“Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.”
“Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]”
“Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman”
“Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.”
Source: Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo
“Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.”
“Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.”
“Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!”