Quotes About Poverty

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.

Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

Poor people waste time, rich people save time. Poor people who invest time are no longer poor.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

Money makes a poor for few days rich. Education makes people rich without asking for money.

How does one get help when they have no money~ or how does one get money when they have no help?

The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.

Hungry bellies have no cars.

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.