2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Do we have the will to make poverty history?

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.