2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Poverty is being single.

Pursue money while you're alive, so that poverty will not pursue you when you're old.

Business Fights Poverty Better Than Charity Does

She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.

The municipality sent water through six Annawadi faucets for ninety minutes in the morning and ninety minutes at night. Shiv Sena men had appropriated the taps, charging usage fees to their neighbors. These water-brokers were resented, but not as much as the renegade World Vision social worker who had collected money from Annawadians for a new tap, then run away with it.

Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes little.

I've seen poverty & I can assure you that it's 'too dark' (Black) in colour.

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.