Quotes About Poverty

Most poverty is a lack of opportunity.

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make it fully self sufficient so we can expand it across Bangladesh.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.

Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.

Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.

Ours was not one of those nice, quaintly old-fashioned mobile homes that senior citizens putter around in. We lived in the beat-up tin can of clichéd poverty.

The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.