Quotes about Poverty
You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.
— Brian Tracy
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
— Samuel Johnson
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
— Mike Huckabee
If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
— Confucius
For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
— Khalil Gibran
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.
— Pope Benedict XVI
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
— George Bernard Shaw
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
— Mark Twain
Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
— Mother Teresa