2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Extreme wealth and extreme poverty : Both are like diseases which prevent us from leading normal lives. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

The only ‘problems’ that we can truly solve through sex are that of never having had sex with anyone, and that of never having had sex with someone.

Some people would not drink enough water almost every day, if they were not poor or broke.

Having ‘nothing’ is a great gift because there is a great good to be learned in poverty, and part of that lesson is that the bounty of material wealth might be the biggest ‘nothing’ that there is.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer.... I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art.

A poor man in good health is richer than a rich man in poor health. ~Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

It is beginning to dawn on the world of compassion that the root causes of poverty can be addressed effectively only through development, not through one-way giving.

But in spite of its bent toward self-interest, even with its excesses and inequalities, capitalism has a historic opportunity to create shared wealth that can benefit every person on the globe. I am convinced that our best hope for moving the poverty needle toward financial wellness once and for all lies with the best practices of the free market.

The opportunity to attain great wealth is within the reach of almost every man and woman. Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings. It is all wrong to be poor, anyhow.