Quotes about Poverty
As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.
— Martin Luther
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
— Mae West
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
— Billy Sunday
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