Quotes about Poverty
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
— George Bernard Shaw
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
— Mark Twain
Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich
— Mother Teresa
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.
— Edith Wharton
Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.
— Edith Wharton
I am horribly poor—and very expensive.
— Edith Wharton
Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.
— James Faust
The poorest people are the sweetest people.
— Denzel Washington
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
— Bill Gates