Quotes About Poverty

Although money alone won't make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.

It's dangerous to have feelings when you don't have any money.

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.