Quotes About Poverty

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

Every man is our brother, and every man's burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.