Quotes about Poverty

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.

there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?

Fex urbis, lex orbis (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome