Quotes About Poverty

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

Clearly, America has no shortage of metaphorical opportunities for the poor.

Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

Unless you have money today, you cannot live life according to your need.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!

When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people. The flow of less advantaged people into cities from Rio to Rotterdam demonstrates urban strength, not weakness.

Cities don't make people poor; they attract poor people.