Quotes About Poverty

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in desperate need of it.

There is no merit in the renunciation of a beggar.

it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise. Now

Buddha gave up his throne and renounced his position, that was true renunciation; but there cannot be any question of renunciation in the case of a beggar who has nothing to renounce.

By the hungry, I will feed you. By the poor, I'll make you rich. By the broken, I will mend you. Tell me: which one is which?

It's odd that the people who worry whether certain plays are "morally offensive" so rarely worry about the moral offensiveness of war, poverty, bigotry.

The length of sentences depends upon the criminal's wealth and type of legal help more than upon the seriousness of his transgression. Court procedures are slow and cumbersome. It is the poor and stupid criminal who gets the heaviest sentences - so the aim of criminals is to become rich and cunning, and thus avoid the harshest penalties.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of their eyes.

Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor we would know much of the economics that really matters.

For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing. Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of the moon.

has a less than 1-in-20 shot at making it to the top. The idea that so many children are born into poverty in the wealthiest nation on Earth is heartbreaking enough. But the idea that a child may never be able to escape that poverty because she lacks a decent education or health care, or a community that views her future as their own, that should offend all of us and it should compel us to