Poverty Quotes - Page 6

• Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Ignorance

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.27, Best Books on

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• Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

  Benjamin Franklin

  Luxury, Avarice Greed, Want

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feelings, Would Be, Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.98, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Poverty is the mother of crime.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mother, Philosophical, Politics

  "Well Said, Well Spoken: 736 Quotable Quotes for Educators". Book edited by Robert D. Ramsey, p. 30, 2001.

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• Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Doe, World

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• Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

  Kofi Annan

  Opportunity, Rich Poor, Improvement

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• Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cities, Different, Extravagance

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.303, Harvard University Press

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• Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

  George Soros

  Government, Democracy, Investing

  "Philanthropist Under Fire". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. March 1, 2004.

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• Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Order, Law

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3200, Delphi Classics

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• The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

  Pope Clement I

  Real, Shoes, Feet

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• When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

  Dennis Banks

  Spiritual, Foundation, Looks

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• There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Girl

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

  Ronald Reagan

  Careers, People, Poor

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• A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

  Samuel Johnson

  Civilization, History, Political

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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• Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Giving, Gold, Appearance

  "Satires (Satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

  Apuleius

  Art

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 285. 35, De Magia, 1922.

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• The poor are only they who feel poor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Poor, Feels

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.98, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Few save the poor feel for the poor.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Poor, Feels

  'The Poor'

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• Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Evil, Way, Feels

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• The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

  Juvenal

  Men, Hardship, Ridiculous

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• When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Names, Common, Young

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.797, Best Books on

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• All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Evil, Wealth

  "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell, 1777.

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• There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

  Victor Hugo

  Class, Humanity, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thank God for poverty
  That makes and keeps us free
  And lets us go our unobtrusive way,
  Glad of the sun and rain,
  Upright, serene, humane,
  Contented with the fortune of a day.

  Bliss Carman

  Rain, Thank God, Way

  Bliss Carman (1906). “Pipes of Pan: Containing "From the Book of Myths", "From the Green Book of the Bards", "Songs of the Sea Children", "Songs from a Northern Garden", "From the Book of Valentines,"”

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