Poverty Quotes

Poverty consists not in the decrease in one's possessions, but in the increase in one's greed. (Plato)
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty. View quote
Livy
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. View quote
Woody Allen
Poverty is the mother of crime. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. View quote
Confucius
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. View quote
Mother Teresa
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. View quote
James Baldwin
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. View quote
Coco Chanel
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. View quote
Mae West
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. (Frederick Douglass)
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. View quote
George Orwell
It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth. View quote
Faina Ranevskaya
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. View quote
May Sarton
Poverty is the worst form of violence. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us... First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said? View quote
Xi Jinping
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. View quote
Samuel Johnson
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. View quote
David Hume
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty. (Hedy Lamarr)
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. View quote
Anzia Yezierska
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. View quote
Horace
He is now rising from affluence to poverty. View quote
Mark Twain
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. View quote
Barack Obama