Quotes About Poverty

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they'll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.

The money is the only source of smile for the poor.

When I will be a billionaire, I will fill the smile on these crying face.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the cause and the reflection of the other.