Quotes on Poverty

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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 say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about.

So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue.

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

Information without execution is poverty.

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.