Quotes About Poverty

Once the population has become aware of the laws of attraction and manifestation, I believe that poverty will become an option instead of a curse.

Poverty is a disease that must be diagnosed and then completely avoided in all societies.

Poverty is a matter of mental state.

Poverty is a pandemic disease that must be cured, sooner or later.

Poverty is also synonymous with poor mentality, or poor thoughts.

Poverty is never a choice. And if it's a choice, then people choose it unknowingly.

Poverty seems to be the root of all evil. Whereas the children of rich parents are spoiled daily.

Remember that, most of the prophets began as poor people, but they did not die in the same state as they began.

The cure of poverty is egalitarianism, increasing the mental capacity of the population and making them see their worth in life.

The hungry ones are praying and begging for daily bread, while food is thrown daily in the palaces.

The philosophers of the past and in our generation, have long argued that the only way to eliminate poverty is by wanting less.

The poor man has sold his freedom of expression to the state.

The proper way of giving charity is to give only to those who are truly in need.

There is no doubt that corruption is the first ingredient of poverty and suffering in any environment.

There is nothing to love in a poor man and nothing to hate in a rich man. Simply, because no one wants to become poor in life. We all seek a moderate lifestyle.

Too much poverty, like living in the same conditions as Job, could lead many to become atheists.

You are not poor only in the lack of possessions, but also in your way of reasoning.

You can't pretend to be treating nature in the best way when you force your own citizens to live in fear and depression because of poverty.

You don't qualify to be called poor if you are able to feed yourself and you are satisfied with your daily life.

At least I could read, count, and pray the catechism. I thought this made me lucky, but in other ways, it made me poor, like a pocket turned inside out, empty of coins.

The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.

We have a thousand machines for making war but none for making peace. We have computers and iPhone apps that can make millions out of a tiny change in exchange rates, but none that can rescue the poorest countries from their plight. We know how to make Internet pornography, but not how to repair marriages. The very objectivity or neutrality of scientific knowledge as commonly conceived has played into the hands of the gods we secretly worship.

In a world of systematic injustice, bullying, violence, arrogance, and oppression, the thought that there might come a day when the wicked are firmly put in their place and the poor and weak are given their due is the best news there can be. Faced with a world in rebellion, a world full of exploitation and wickedness, a good God must be a God of judgment.

And if anyone tries to say that the good news is not about all these things—about freeing slaves, about helping the poor, about reconciling warring factions, ethnic groupings, and whole nations, about looking after the blessed world we live on and in—but instead is only about coming to faith in the present and going to heaven in the future, then we must reply that something has gone very, very wrong in their thinking.