If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volun….

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars..

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them..

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is signifi….

I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared..

Come away; poverty's catching..

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to kno….

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude..

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food..

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it..

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week..

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath..

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best..

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives..

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit..

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts..

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to en….

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time..

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty..

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes..

I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can….