Quotes about Poverty

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.

Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.

I am horribly poor—and very expensive.

Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.

We never had any money. All the money we used to get, my father would give to the Communist Party.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

A graceless, inexperienced preacher is one of the most unhappy creatures upon earth: and yet he is ordinarily very insensible of his unhappiness; for he has so many counters that seem like the gold of saving grace, and so many splendid stones that resemble Christian jewels, that he is seldom troubled with the thoughts of his poverty; but (Rev3:15) thinks he is "rich, and increased in goods, and stands in need of nothing, when he is poor, and miserable, and blind, and naked." He

With the exception of Leviticus and Numbers, written by the priestly classes, most of the Bible is written by or about people who are occupied, enslaved, poor or disenfranchised in some way!