Poverty Quotes - Page 25

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

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.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

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

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never good but through necessity: on the contrary, when good and evil are left to their choice, they will not fail to throw every thing into disorder and confusion. Hunger and poverty may make men industrious, but laws only can make them good; for, if men were so of themselves, there would be no occasion for laws; but, as the case is far otherwise, they are absolutely necessary.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Criminality is always the result of poverty.