Quotes About Poverty

Evita was loved by the lower classes for her rise from poverty as an illegitimate child and possibly legit prostitute to radio star and actress. Yet she was despised by the wealthy, who considered her crass, crude, Machiavellian white-trash tyrant, a Hispanic Lady Macbeth-not to mention a Nazi sympathizer.

Kemiskinan itu bukan alasan, dia adalah satu kondisi. Seperti gravitasi, dia mempengaruhi semuanya

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

She's somebody's mother, boys, you know, For all she's aged and poor and slow.

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.

The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

Bed is the poor man's opera.

Poverty - one thing money can't buy.

The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No, if it were, men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder, though, and is punished as such.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.