Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
‐‐ Bono
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
‐‐ Daniel De Leon
Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.
‐‐ Isabella Bird
Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
‐‐ Jack Klugman
Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.
‐‐ Ann Cotton
Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.
‐‐ John O. Brennan
Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.
‐‐ Anna Lindh
Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
‐‐ Alberto Fujimori
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling
Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.
‐‐ Hill Harper
Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
‐‐ Irwin Redlener
Poverty is a national issue and needs a federal response. After all, U.S. federal government policies helped produce massive income inequality by lopsided breaks for the super wealthy.
‐‐ Donna Brazile
Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
‐‐ L. Neil Smith
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran
Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.
‐‐ Theresa May
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
‐‐ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
‐‐ Kathleen Blanco
Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.
‐‐ Benny Hinn
Poverty is just a word. I mean, how do you dismantle capitalism? It's through small actions. It's through breaking down poverty as a lived experience of not enough food, of your health not being good. So those are things that we can actually work on without ever having to call a politician.
‐‐ Sunil Yapa
Poverty is more than a material experience; it's a psychological state as well, one that is infused with anxiety. And decision-making is very complex because every decision you make has an impact on your future and survival.
‐‐ Ann Cotton
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
‐‐ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
‐‐ Milton Berle
Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.
‐‐ Marc Forne Molne
Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.
‐‐ Theresa May
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
‐‐ Deng Xiaoping
Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
‐‐ Adam Davidson
Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.
‐‐ Alice Foote MacDougall
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
‐‐ Stuart Wilde
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus
Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.
‐‐ Ricardo Lagos
Poverty is the mother of crime.
‐‐ Marcus Aurelius
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
‐‐ Jean Paul
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
‐‐ Antiphanes
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
‐‐ James A. Garfield
Poverty is unnecessary.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden
Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
‐‐ Irwin Redlener
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
‐‐ Bertolt Brecht
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
‐‐ Bertolt Brecht
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere
Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
‐‐ Anna Lindh
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
‐‐ Don Herold
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne