Quotes about Poverty
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
— Mae West
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
— Mother Teresa
A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is a gift for the wise, a playground for the foolish, a heaven for the rich, and a hell for the poor.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
— Michelangelo
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
— Mike Huckabee
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
— Mother Teresa
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
— Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty.
— Mother Teresa