Quotes about Poverty
If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.
— Bill Gates
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
— William Temple
The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.
— Esther Duflo
I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Very few people can afford to be poor.
— George Bernard Shaw
Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.
— Pope Francis
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.
— Dolly Parton
Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
— Akiva ben Joseph
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
— Mark Twain