Poverty Quotes, Sayings about the poor
+3The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
- William James
+1Poverty is a career for lot’s of well paid people.
- Ronald Reagan
+1Affluence creates poverty.
- Marshall McLuhan
+1Poverty is no sin.
- George Edward
+1Bed is the poor man’s opera.
- Italian Proverb
+1Poverty is one thing money can’t buy.
- Lynwood L. Giacomini
+1Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
- Bertolt Brecht
+1Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
+1Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
+1To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
- Gandhi
+1The greatest man in history was the poorest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.
- Aristotle
+1A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W.C. Fields
+1You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
- P. J. O’Rourke
+1Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.
- Eli Khamarov
+1The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
- William
+1Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
– Sydney Smith
+1There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
- George Farquhar
+1When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
- Dennis
+1For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
- John
+1The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
- Harry Kemp
+1If you’ve ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.
- Arnold Bennett
+1It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
- Seneca
+1Alms giving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
- Eva Peron
+1Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
- Heinrich Heine
+1It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
- Mother Teresa
+1If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
+1Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
- Norman Vincent Peale
+1There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
- Spencer Tracy
+1Wars against nations are fought to change maps; wars against poverty are fought to map change.
- Muhammad Ali
+1It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
- Bill Vaughan
+1Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
- James A. Baldwin
+1Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi
+1It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.
- Ray Kroc
+1Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
- Walter Bagehot
