Quotes About Poverty

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be.

We are all poor in the face of God's majesty. Not all of us realise it.

People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

Look poor, think rich.

The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I.

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

You can never fill your life with prosperity if you walk with a poor person's mentality.

Poverty will leave you when you are ready to welcome opportunities.

Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.

I don't want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don't want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty.

A country is poor not because they have no wealth but because they have no good ideas.

If we agree that God did not create poverty then, in my opinion, it came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.

If we agree that God did not create poverty, then in my opinion, poverty came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.

Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts.