Quotes about Poverty
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
— George Bernard Shaw
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
— William Barclay
No matter how poor one is, one can still give others riches
— Anne Frank
Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world?
— Anne Frank
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man. and the limitless kindness of God. WILLIAM BARCLAY
— Sheila Walsh
We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]
— John F. Kennedy
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
— Audrey Hepburn
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
— Charles Dickens
Morals are a luxury of the rich.
— George Bernard Shaw
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
— George Eliot
for the human mind in that grassy corner had not the proverbial tendency to admire the unknown, holding rather that it was likely to be against the poor man, and that suspicion was the only wise attitude with regard to it.
— George Eliot