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Quotes About Poverty

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
~ Chance The Rapper
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
~ W. C. Fields
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
~ Mae West
Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and I see every opponent as a man that tries to put me back to that poorer period. That man has to be eliminated.
~ Fedor Emelianenko
Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
~ Billy Sunday
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I don't even have money for a cheeseburger!
~ Allen Iverson
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee
~ Gyorgy Ligeti
Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.
~ Blake Griffin
Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.
~ John Spence
What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.
~ Francis of Assisi
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
~ Ron Paul
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.
~ Richard Francis Burton
There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.
~ Hugo Black
What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.
~ Clarence Jordan
The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
~ Adam Smith
I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.
~ Bow Wow
There's an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.
~ Gene Simmons
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
~ Charles Dickens