2,719 Quotes About Poverty

I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I called 'helping' them.

Money is so powerful, and poverty so painful, that there has never been, and there will never be, a sane prostitute that played or will play hard to get.

All too often, food is given to a poor person only because the giver is too lazy to go to the dustbin, or to look for one.

The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.