Poverty Quotes
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of 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.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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.
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.
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.
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.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.
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