2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.