Quotes About Poverty

My own theory is that the spectacle of the homeless may be necessary to keep the rest of us on the straight and narrow...

Where there is no bread, there is no philosophy.

Any people who preferred "a wealthy villain" to "an honest upright man in poverty" deserved, Hancock lectured, to find itself oppressed.

look'n for a job? this is when the truck driver asks joad what he is doing and i think it indecates that this story revolves around a very hard time

In the late 1960s a woman in the poorer countries of the world typically had six children. Today the average is fewer than three. In fact, demographers now project that the world's population will begin to decline before 2050.47

One study showed an increase of thirty points in IQ scores of orphaned children who were moved from a poor institution to a better one.

Blacks did not arrive in New York in large numbers until after World War I, and, following the lead of the foreign immigrants, they moved to Harlem. Most were from the rural South, and most were poor. As the blacks moved in, the Jews moved out—north into the Bronx or, if they could afford it, to the South Shore of Queens and Long Island.

Yes, helping the poor helps keep them stuck in poverty. As Jesus said, 'Tough love thy neighbor as thyself, get your own loaves and fishes.'-- Stephen Colbert

As the governor scanned it, Swim explained. "Liberal progressive policies for the last fifty years or so have devastated the poor people of America. Welfare; aid to dependent families; food stamps; essentially free medical care; schools that try to prepare everyone for a four-year college degree, when only a fraction of the poor people will ever want or get one; lack of technical training; the breakdown of the black family—all those things have led us to where we are.

but until we fix the government policies that breed poverty, we have condemned the poor, black, white, and brown to a life of economic slavery

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

Poor economic conditions translate to spikes in crime, suicide, spousal abuse, malnutrition, alcoholism, and abortion.

Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced [robots] wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

There's only one thing worse than being sick...and that's being sick and poor.

A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty.

A rich man who robs from the poor is really a pauper in the land of morality.

If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemetery.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.