Quotes about Poverty
We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.
— Ronald Reagan
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
— Heinrich Heine
Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world
— Bill Gates
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
— John F. Kennedy
You can't help the poor by being one of them.
— Abraham Lincoln
You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.
— Brian Tracy
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
— Samuel Johnson
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
— Mike Huckabee
If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.
— Confucius
For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
— Khalil Gibran
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.
— Pope Benedict XVI
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
— Mahatma Gandhi