2,719 Quotes About Poverty

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

Poverty does not create our social problems...our social problems create our poverty.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.