Quotes About Poverty

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.