2,719 Quotes About Poverty

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.