Quotes About Poverty

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

Oh, poverty parts good company.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.