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Quotes About Poverty

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves
~ Ben Elton, Meltdown
Lack of money is no poverty.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Who's poorer, the one who begs for money or those who have not enough to give away? Or are they reflecting one another and the same nature?
~ Robin Sacredfire
For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
Those that think banks and governments are making them poor haven't seen the whole picture. Poverty is the act of trusting their system.
~ Robin Sacredfire
Luck of money is never poverty.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I have a repository of knowledge, but I have no money, it means I have no respect.
~ Tanmaya Guru
Without the money your life is like a colorless painting.
~ Tanmaya Guru
You could become rich if you were born financially poor, But you can't stay rich if you are poor minded.
~ Rafaa Khiari
You want money... Okay... Now few dollars... then few... then few... and poof everything is gone. That's call failure!
~ Deyth Banger
WoyzeckUs poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.
~ Georg Büchner, Woyzeck
Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest
~ Pradeepa Pandiyan
We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little
~ Dean Griffiths
In a materialistic society, there's no such a thing as a 'romantic' broke man.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There's a very fine line between being broke and being humble.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I'd rather be poor to my bones than be rich with your money, that is like a trigger, ready to be pulled in my face.
~ Nema Al-Araby
When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The means to laying up treasure in heaven is by giving to the poor.
~ David Servant, Forever Rich
Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn't willing to do 'anything' for money.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Loving money is more of a problem for those who do not have it.
~ Sunday Adelaja
As my father always says, there's no shame in being poor, but it can be damned inconvenient.
~ Christine Pope, Breath of Life