(831 quotes found)
“In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.”
Ryszard Kapuscinski
“Poverty is taking your children to the hospital and spending the whole day waiting with no one even taking your name, and then coming back the next day, and the next, until they finally get around to you”
Janice Bradshaw
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving”
George Eliot
“Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.”
Deng Xiaoping
“Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”
Michael Harrington
“Poor is the church without music”
Irish Sayings
“No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.”
Ray Charles
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
Coco Chanel
“It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.”
Bill Vaughn
