2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.

You can get the answer of your every question in the empty hands of the beggar. But still you are questioning why his hands are empty.

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant that we ran rather than loitered. Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty.

Take care of others now, so they can take care of you in future.

During times of need, it was always the people with the least to give who ended up sacrificing the most.

I hate what G.P. calls the New People, the new class people with their cars and their money and their tellies and their stupid vulgarities and their stupid crawling imitations of the bourgeoisie.(...)The New People are still the poor people, it is the new form of poverty. The others hadn't any money and these haven't any soul.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. By extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.