(831 quotes found)
“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.”
Anatole France
“There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do”
Fulton J. Sheen
“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations”
Adam Smith
“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.”
Horace
“Large desire is endless poverty.”
Indian Proverb
“Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers”
William James
“You may try to destroy all the wealth and find that all you have done is increase poverty.”
Winston Churchill
“Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
