Poverty is the center of the Gospel..

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty..

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine know….

I don't pull, I just receive..

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty..

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up..

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be..

Your life on the Outside reflects your life on the Inside.

To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultura….

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still..

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread..

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness….

Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed..

[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him abs….

When we get to the future, I'll decide the future..

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a tr….

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedo….

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective..