Poverty Quotes - Page 33

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

Poverty is a great equalizer

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

The country is in the worst conditions ever in its history. It's unjustifiable that in a country with the largest petroleum reserves on the planet, 70% of the food we eat is imported ... that there are 700,000 families in extreme poverty who go to bed hungry every night.

Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.