Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old poverty quotes, poverty sayings, and poverty proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.Nelson Mandela
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Poverty consists in feeling poor.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Affluence creates poverty.Marshall McLuhan
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Money is a poor man’s credit card.Marshall McLuhan
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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.Heinrich Heine
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When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die.Jean Paul Sartre
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.John Gardner
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.J. K. Rowling
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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.Josh Billings
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.Michel de Montaigne
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Poverty it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.Henry David Thoreau
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.Napoleon Bonaparte
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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.Samuel Johnson
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The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.Juvenal
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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.William Hazlitt
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Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.Kofi Annan
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.Bertolt Brecht
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Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.Lyndon B. Johnson