Quotes about Poverty, page 2

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Quote by Theodore Parker about poverty

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

Quote by Gordon Parks about poverty

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil along with the evil of racism with a camera.

Quote by Gordon Parks about poverty

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous, by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

Quote by James Payn about poverty

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity or even patented for himself must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

Quote by James Payn about poverty

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

Quote by James Payn about poverty

It is already difficult to realize that a mere twenty years ago poverty was taken almost for granted over most of the earth's surface.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about poverty

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about poverty

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about poverty

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

Quote by George Herbert about poverty

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about poverty

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Quote by Madonna about poverty

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Quote by Jules Michelet about poverty

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Quote by William Pitt about poverty

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

Quote by Eugene Sue about poverty

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Quote by Bertolt Brecht about poverty

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Quote by Stevie Wonder about poverty

Star Star, my only star, in the poverty of the night, alone, for me, alone, you shine, in loneliness you shine; But, for me, star that never will stop from lighting, a too short time is granted you, you lavish me a light that...

Quote by Giuseppe Ungaretti about poverty

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Quote by Henry Fielding about poverty

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

Quote by Betty Jane Whylie about poverty