Quotes and Sayings About Poverty

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
-- Abdallah II

#Night #Unemployment #Poverty

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Loneliness #Being Alone #Poverty

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Lonely #Loneliness #Poverty

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
-- Adam Smith

#Real #Tragedy #Poverty

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
-- Aga Khan IV

#Home #Bridges #Poverty

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella

#Past #Poverty #Misery

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.
-- Al Capone

#Earth #Poverty #Hell

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#People #Arabia #Poverty

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
-- Albert Camus

#Family First #Poverty #Firsts

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
-- Albert Camus

#Solitude #Poverty #Values

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
-- Alberto Fujimori

#Poverty #Violence

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Liberty #Poverty #Population

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
-- Aleksandr Kuprin

#Poverty

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.
-- Alexander Pope

#World #Want #Poverty

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.
-- Alexander Smith

#Men #Desire #Poverty

Owain crossed his arms over his chest. "I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now." "So, in other words," North said, "you're living in poverty?
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Jobs #Poverty #Gone

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.
-- Alexis De Veaux

#School #Poverty #Want

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Riches #Poverty

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Ignorance #Poverty #Wealth

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.
-- Alice Childress

#Thinking #Generations #Poverty

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being
-- Amartya Sen

#Full Potential #Poverty #Realizing

Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.
-- Amartya Sen

#Opportunity #Poverty #Development

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.
-- Amartya Sen

#People #Poverty #Problem

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty
-- Amartya Sen

#Freedom #Poverty #Sometimes

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.
-- Ana Castillo

#Littles #Poverty #Sun

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
-- Anatole France

#Fate #Literature #Poverty

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty
-- Andrew Cuomo

#War #Poverty #War On Poverty

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
-- Aneurin Bevan

#Poverty #Solutions

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
-- Ann Radcliffe

#Inspirational #Poverty #Opinion

Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.
-- Ann Rule

#Sex #Loneliness #Poverty