Poverty Quotes
Right now, America is in a state of upheaval. Poverty is demoralizing. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy there now who is redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.
Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.
I have yet to know a poor man who has nostalgia for poverty.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.
Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.
Separation from the wife, disgrace from one's own people, an enemy saved in battle, service to a wicked king, poverty, and a mismanaged assembly: these six kinds of evils, if afflicting a person, burn him even without fire.
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