Quotes About Poverty

Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the poverty line just needs to shape up or be shipped out, you know?

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty.

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

Let's have Michael Bloomberg run the whole thing. Did a great job on this stuff in New York. If you want to spend at least what we already are on the poor but actually get results, go for it!

Nothing makes men sharper than want.

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

Wealth oft-times killeth, where want but hindered the budding.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.

I'm concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you're poor, somehow you're shiftless and lazy.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.