2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.