2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

Beggars can't be choosers.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.