Poverty Quotes

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which we all benefit, but for which no-one helps. We have to point the spotlight on the family, and make political choices that sustain the family.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

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.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.