Poverty Quotes

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace, Odes

Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable.

D. A. Battista

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention

The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of the soul is irreparable.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass, Speech, April 1886

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Zora Neale Hurston

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato, The Republic

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen

Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.

David Pratt

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man - Made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Nelson Mandela

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal, Satires

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Oscar Wilde, , in a letter to his friend, Frances Forbes - Robertson, who had invited him to her wedding in London, but Wilde wa

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Herbert Simon, economist

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Henry Fielding

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.

Bill Cosby