Quotes About Poverty

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

Contrary to popular belief. It's much wiser to take money from the poor than the rich.

When you ain't got no money, you got the blues.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.

Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

I started my own foundation. If you aren't familiar with it, it's called 'Febreezing the homeless.' Who would you rather give money to: a man that smells 4like liquiid garbage, or ocean breeze?

I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

Squeezed for money, the affected households often need to lower the quality of their food, which then impacts the overall development of their children.

A poor man fear for money works against him.

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.