Quotes About Poverty

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Better poetry than riches, Better poverty than fortunes.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

If you make sleeping your hobby then poverty becomes your best companion

Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.

If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.

Poverty cannot be defeated unless you first defeat it in the mind.

Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.