Quotes about Poverty
What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
— George Bernard Shaw
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
— Desmond Tutu
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
— St. Jerome
Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
— Bill Gates
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
— Mark Twain
I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.
— Mother Teresa
I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
— Ricky Gervais
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
— Oscar Wilde
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
— Mother Teresa