2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.

He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied.