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:
This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
...in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.
Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a strange land.
The most powerful tool to lift families out of extreme poverty is to grant micro-loans to women.
Honestly face your inner poverty as a means of discovering your inner wealth.
"The fear of poverty and being ordinary inspired me to be an entrepreneur"
Poverty remains the most important factor in determining whether a girl can access education.
Contentment with poverty is Fortune's best gift:
Riches and Honour are the handmaids of Disaster.