Quotes About Poverty

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace,

Even then I understood that if the rich could only spare all the hungry a bowl of rice, they would be less rich but they would not starve.

I could not help but feel moved by the plight of these poor people. Perhaps it was not correct, politically speaking, for me to feel sympathy for them, but my mother would have been one of them if she were alive. She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.

I was doing my best imitation of a Third World child on one of those milk cartons passed around elementary schools for American children to deposit their pennies and dimes in order to help poor Alejandro, Abdullah, or Ah Sing have a hot lunch and an immunization. And I was thankful, truly! But I was also one of those unfortunate cases who could not help but wonder whether my need for American charity was due to my having first been the recipient of American aid.

The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

The city may have chosen to ignore the ugly growth of Dharavi, but a cancer cannot be stopped simply by being declared illegal. It still kills with its slow poison.

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it.

A real poor person is the one who can't promise anything.

An ignorant person is poorer than the man who has no money.

Don't ever try to fight with those who have either nothing or everything.

Education is the poor man's haven and the ignorant man's hell.

For the beggar, everything is always out of fashion.

God has never shown mercy on the poor.

He was so poor that he couldn't afford a funeral that's why he is still alive.

He who is everybody's friend is either very poor or very rich.

He who knows not when he has enough, is poor.

So many people who desire poverty get it quickly, but those who desire wealth never have it.

The greatest charity is to enable the poor to earn a living.

The person whose stomach is full does not know what a hungry person feels.

The rich man thinks about the future the poor man thinks about today.

There is no poverty where there is character, and no wealth or honour where character is missing

There is not much difference between a greedy person and a pauper.