Quotes About Poverty

My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the developing world, helping farmers diversify their crops and stuff like that.

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.

Two things that can measure who you really are: The way you manage when you have nothing and the way you behave when you have everything.

Simplicity is not leading a very simple life with bountiful wealth and luxury that one can lay hands on, but building no desire to have surplus resources inspite of living in abject penury situations.

You know it's funny when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Even the richest person can be unsatisfied and even the poorest happy and satisfied. All depends upon your ways and understanding about life and nothing else.

Rich people stay rich by living like they're broke...broke people stay broke by living like they're rich.

she was also an extremely poor one, and, as he himself had lost his fortune, they went scarcely anywhere, and were the sort of people who were apt to be overlooked except on great occasions, when they had the good fortune to bury or marry a relative.

But, as my sister says, 'there must always be poor people so that now that I'm rich I can shit on them.

He said it hit him travelling one time in the year or so before he met my mother. Whatever country of the world it was, the poor were starting to look alike, live alike, eat alike, and dress alike in the same kind of clothes all made in the same part of China. To him, it was a sign that the people had got severed from the land.

As part of this process, the location of areas of exclusion in theology is one of crucial importance; for instance, poverty and sensuality as a whole (and not as separate units) has been marginalised in theology. A theology from the poor needs also to be a sexual theology, a theology of economics and desires that have been excluded from our way of 'doing theology' as a second act. I