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Poverty Quotes

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

People Think Poverty Luxury Opposite

The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.

Desert Present Poverty Matter Minds

I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

Matthew Desmond

Love Pain America Poverty Special

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

Life Wife Poverty Consequences She

There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'

Democracy Problems Poverty Table Say

A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.

Randi Weingarten

Education Best Rich Poverty Out

The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impression on me, and I hope that I try to convey a little bit of that to the reader.

Matthew Desmond

Hope Me Think Poverty Hardship Try

Yes, there's a higher rate of people living below the poverty line who aren't vaccinated. But it's much rarer for that to be a product of choice than a product of circumstance.

People Poverty Choice Living Line

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Anthony Trollope

Poverty Rural Misery Should Suburban

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

Radhanath Swami

Father Business Struggle Poverty New

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

Matthew Desmond

Appreciate Poverty Creation Housing

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

Ellen Wilkinson

Mother Sick Poverty Pay Against Who

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

Words Suffering Rose Poverty Party

The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

Path Lie America Poverty You Said

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

Financial America Poverty Prosperity

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

World Poverty You Look Debt Over

I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.

Life Better My Life Poverty Cuba

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

People Society Political Poverty

Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

Growth Chance Poverty Active Without

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

Cyril Ramaphosa

Society Gender Poverty Prosperity

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

William R. Alger

Soul Feel Poverty Wealth Little How

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

Political Wish Poverty Sometimes

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

War People Problem Solution Poverty

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness Daily Poverty Bread Others

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