Best Poverty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.”

Art Humanity Cities Poverty Creativity Land Civilization India Enormous Plenty Uplifting Daily Life Village Magnificent Sparkle

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.”

Poor Poverty Modern Theory India Bottom Lifts Aspiration Addresses Dictionary Trickle Down Modern India

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.”

Men Firsts Eye Remember Poverty Hero Feminist Teenager Discovering

Author:Frances O'Grady

“There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.”

Jesus Poverty Birth Connections Opposites Simplicity Ceremony Jesus Birth

Author:Keith O'Brien

“I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.”

Thinking America Lines Accepting Poverty Allowing Engaging Paychecks Piracy

Author:Will Oldham

“Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.”

Want Children Education Poverty Teaching More To Life

Author:Tupac Shakur

“The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.”

Today Values Politics Poverty Trouble

Author:Dan Quayle

“Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.”

Way Lines Poverty Economic Defined Inflation Health And Education

Author:Azim Premji

“If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.”

Ifs Thinking Seems Might Guy Deals Poverty Issues Clinton Starting Definitions Hills Factions Chapel Ascendancy Chapel Hill

Author:John Podesta

“I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.”

World Mean Country Done Bigs Given Chance Forget Effort Poverty Lows Debt Income Indebted Good Chance Low Income

Author:Rodrigo Rato

“I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.”

Knows Children Made Poverty Media Grew Grew Up Neighborhood Deprived

Author:Ving Rhames

“I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account.”

People Want Trying Persons Real Helping Use Hands Poverty Racism Accounts Angry Aids Shoulders Real Person

Author:Jamie Foxx

“In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.”

“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.”

Made Values Literature Born Poor Poverty Fate Taught True Value

Author:Anatole France

“The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.”

World War Humanity Speak Social Poverty Violence Conditions Buddhism Stem Imbalance Social Conditions Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”

Poor Money Business Pay Poverty Virtue Credit Cash Riches And Poors

Author:Anatole France

“.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.”

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.”

People Book States Stories Shows Wanted Political Left Views Poverty Written Crime Reader Point Of View Welfare Officials Copies Layers Realised Brutality Sweden Welfare State Criminality

Author:Maj Sjowall

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.”

Ifs World Together Winning Poverty Clear Failing Development Battle Succeed Overcoming Climate Climate Change Manage Economist Crystals World Poverty

Author:Nicholas Stern

“These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.”

Thinking World Giving Littles Poverty Resources Riches These Days Scandal World Poverty Wealth And Poverty

Author:Pope Francis

“Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.”

Thinking Poverty Cutting Smart Immigration Australia

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.”

Kids Jobs Young House Poor Levels Poverty Grew Grew Up Modest

Author:Chely Wright

“Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.”

People World Two Reason Helping Political Poverty Program Regard Variety Divided Camps Learning Experience

Author:Barney Frank

“There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.”

Different Political Culture Religious Loss Poverty Despair Rivers Gender Fanaticism Repression Apartheid

Author:Lawrence Wright

“Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous”

“The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.”

Thinking Should Christian Culture Speak Religious Poverty Issues Extremes Hypocrisy Global Warming Voters Christian Right Extreme Poverty

Author:Al Franken

“Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.”

Thinking Should Mean Country Poverty Charity Reduction Haiti Poverty Reduction

Author:Laurent Lamothe

“There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.”

Real Grows Poverty Growing Up Desperation

Author:Ray LaMontagne

“Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.”

Able Poverty Crosses Frontiers

Author:Ricardo Lagos

“Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.”

Firsts Bigs Poverty Technology Economy Crime Changed Stronger Independence Impact Dollars Jamaica Big Impact

Author:Damian Marley

“I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.”

People Thinking Believe Helping Happens Jobs Left Poverty Rights Despair Workers Fewer Providing Competitors

Author:Louise Mensch

“The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.”

Poverty Worst Blind

Author:Rohinton Mistry

“Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”

Poor Money Liberty Poverty Shame Awe Ashamed Poor Richard Awe Inspiring Riches And Poors

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.”

Believe Poverty Conditions Messages Tough Areas Kingdoms Britain Kingdom Of God Deprivation

Author:N. T. Wright

“Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.”

Littles Term Wealth Poverty Average Significant Income Acknowledge Economist Wealth And Poverty

Author:Rowan Williams

“Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.”

Poverty Rich Riches Rejoice Portions Poor Richard

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.”

Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

“You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.”

Way Want Writing Self States Order Situation Poverty Constant

Author:Tom Waits

“Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.”

People Helping Community Poverty Policy Essentials Lifts Empowering Activist Advancing Marginalized

Author:Michael Franti

“As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.”

People Country Helping Today Moving Suffering Poverty Share Ready Tomorrow Concerned Dignity Misery Haiti Ready To Leave

Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.”

Mother Poverty Crime Code Welfare

Book:Lessons for Our Struggle

Source: Lessons for Our Struggle

“We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.”

Men May Different Reason Facts Form Effort Poverty Successful He Man Masters Thousand Achievement Misery Defeat Despite Chiefs March Undertakings

Book:The Law of Success

Source: The Law of Success

“We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.”

Ifs Ends Poverty Climate Climate Change

Author:Jim Yong Kim

“While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality.”

People Christian Poverty Morality Demand Caught Lifestyle Destructive Materialism Caught Up Family Life Christian Morality

Book:The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

Source: The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis

“Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.”

Giving School Spirit Poverty Streets Broken Giving Up Corruption Midst Tempted

Book:Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests

Source: Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests

“In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.”

States Facts White Poor United Poverty United States Discrimination Treatment Standing Out Racial Discrimination

Author:Martin Luther

“That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.”

Firsts Children Problem School Understanding Responsibility Poverty Keys Members Extraordinary Critical Boards Meals Latches School Board Board Members

Author:Richard Lugar

“The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.”

Persons States Humanity United Responsibility Poverty United States Conflict Disease Cures Lifts

Author:Richard Lugar

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