Quotes about Poverty

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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They do — Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as mu — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure — Mother Teresa, A Simple Path: Mother Teresa
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. — Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. — Mother Teresa
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. — Albert Einstein
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and — Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after al — Criss Jami, Killosophy
On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. — Seneca
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient — Milton Berle
The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put — Muhammad Yunus
I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don't like the way peop — Delano Johnson, Words That Changed the World
I died last night. Seventy years too young. — Colin Thompson
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. — Mahatma Gandhi
Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. — Martin Luther, The Sermons of Martin Luther: 7 Volumes
For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of — Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you — Thomas Merton, The Hidden Ground Of Love: The Letters Of Thomas Merton On Religious Experience And Social Concerns
People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine interventio — Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings