Poverty Quotes

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."

"Matilda said It's no good being poor How can she stop us from packing off to America But that's just what she's done She's come along and ruin everything"

"Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters"

"While poverty persists, there is no true freedom."

"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty"

"The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer"

"Poverty alleviation is an essential task in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects"

"When the rich make war, it's the poor that die"

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."

"Though you are poor, do not behave in a servile manner"

"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."

"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."

"To them, poverty is the family tradition"

"Solutions to poverty must come from within the community"

"I may have been the best fighter, but I was also the poorest. I had never been able to afford a first-class mouthpiece to protect my teeth. I had to wait until other fighters finished so I could borrow their headgear, or their trunk or bandages."