Quotes About Poverty

The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts."

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang, hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.

If youth but knew, and age were able, Then poverty would be a fable.

Sloth is the mother of poverty.

Poverty is the sister of a sound mind.

If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.

Šta vredi imati mnogo i biti nešto, kad ?ovek ne može da se oslobodi straha od sirotinje, ni niskosti u mislima, ni grubosti u re?ima, ni nesigurnosti u postupcima, kad gorka i neumitna a nevidljiva beda prati ?oveka u stopu, a taj lepši, bolji i mirniji život izmi?e se kao varljivo privi?enje.

Imaju tri stvari koje se ne daju sakriti, a to su: ljubav, kašalj i siromaštvo.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything. PUBLILIUS SYRUS Money

Durante el día empujaba la carreta por la vecindad; por la noche dormía bajo los viaductos, detrás de los setos, en callejones.

White trash had a way of finding their graves. Along with wife beating and beer sucking, dying was probably their only core competency.

When you are poor, all you have are the people in your life. Who they are and who they are to you? That is the wealth you have in the world. That is the wealth you pass down to the next generation.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

Everything belongs to me because I am poor.

They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they though civilisation could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it. They didn't know that a bomb had come that could crack all our bridges and roads and reduce them to jumbles, and we would be as poor as they someday and stretching out our hands in the same, same way.

Her unimpeachable dignity was the thing that made her poor in a wild old whorehouse.

Sometimes during the night I'd look at my poor sleeping mother cruelly crucified there in the American night because of no-money, no-hope-of-money, no family, no nothing, just myself the stupid son of plans all of them compacted of eventual darkness.

They didn't know that a bomb had come that could crack all our bridges and roads and reduce them to jumbles, and we would be as poor as they someday, and stretching out our hands in the same, same way.

He who steals my purse steals my right to live, was the reply, old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life.

Times have changed since Christ's day. A rich man to-day who gives all he has to the poor is crazy. There is no discussion. Society has spoken.

The myriads that raise the cry of hunger wail in the greatest empire in the world

Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

My dad grew up with straight-up no running water. He slept in a twin bed with his two sisters and his mom, like 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' style: like, feet at the head, feet at the head alternating. And then I think his dad slept on, like, a bed of newspapers on a floor in their apartment.

For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.