Poverty Quotes

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Kahlil Gibran

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Benjamin Franklin

MT was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

Christopher Hitchens

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Theresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Mother Theresa

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Georges Bernanos

True poverty does not come from God.

Yiddish Proverb

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish Proverb

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Thomas Fuller

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Don Herold

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such difference. The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. Change places, and handy dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Everyone who has mixed on equal terms with the poor knows this quite well. But the trouble is that intelligent, cultivated people, the very people who might be expected to have liberal opinions, never do mix with the poor. For what do the majority of educated people know about poverty?

George Orwell

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

George Farquhar

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Plato

Liberals fought poverty and poverty won.

Ronald Reagan

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving

George Eliot

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Charles Dickens

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

Eugene Sue

The poorest He that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest He.

Thomas Raineborough

Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!

Thomas Hood