Quotes about Poverty
To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
— Mark Twain
As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.
— Martin Luther
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
— Mae West
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
— Billy Sunday
What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
— George Bernard Shaw
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.
— Desmond Tutu
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
— St. Jerome
Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
— Bill Gates