Quotes about Poverty
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
— Mark Twain
I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.
— Mother Teresa
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
— Oscar Wilde
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
— Mother Teresa
America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.
— Ronald Reagan
I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the elimination of poverty.
— Deepak Chopra
The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.
— Dan Quayle
Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.
— Will Rogers
Poor man. Poor mankind.
— William Faulkner
Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.
— John Hagee
The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.
— Alan Redpath