2,719 Quotes About Poverty

A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.

Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

فقر عظيم هند با فقرى كه در محله هاى زاغه نشين نيويورك به چشم مى خورد فرق جوهرى دارد. نظام اخلاقى هند نه فقط عليه فقر مبارزه نمى كند، بلكه غايت حيات معنوى انسان را در فقر مى بيند.

Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.

When they think about Africa, they think about War, Poverty, Hunger and Diseases.

It's sad to see the world live in ignorance full of pain only enjoyed luxuriously by the few stupid greedy ones.

Poverty is the events of forced separation of mass from the nature. Poverty is not the cause but the outcome. Poverty is not natural, it is created, it is abnormal, unexpected and unwanted. Its was never part of the nature and never will be. Poverty has been engineered by few Unwise, irresponsible and selfish individuals.

Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mindis free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there isno seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inwardpoverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all

Whenever governments wanted to achieve some end, often involving population growth, they restricted access to birth control and/or criminalized birth control unless, of course, the population growth concerned the poor, in which case, contraception was enthusiastically promoted. Historically, society has only wanted the "right kind of people" to have a right to life. We shouldn't forget that fact.