Poverty Quotes
Juvenal has the most entries, with Solomon, Shakespeare, Ali and the Nigerian politician Peter Obi after him. The older sourced material is blunt. Shaw’s Major Barbara (1905) calls poverty the greatest of evils and the worst of crimes, and Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village (1770) has a line addressed to poetry: “that found’st me poor at first, and keep’st me so.” Mark Twain gets in a joke in 1869, saying that a man is fast rising from affluence to poverty.
Three entries are flagged. “Poverty is the worst kind of violence” is credited to Gandhi as disputed. A passage on love having hands to help others is credited to Augustine, also disputed. “Widespread poverty and concentrated wealth cannot long endure side by side in a democracy” is credited to Thomas Jefferson and flagged misattributed.
Most quoted on poverty:
I hope that Live Earth ends global warming the same way the Live Aid ended world poverty.
Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.
With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out.
Biting poverty and cruel Cupid are my foes. Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.
Those who govern have the responsibility to eradicate poverty
Poverty is no excuse. Development aid has to be linked to economic development
"Youth empowerment is more than a passion—it's a lever for lifting communities out of poverty."
"All Nigerian states are now underdeveloped, uniformly, with insecurity and uniform poverty."
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.