Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Another cause of our poverty lies in our new needs.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Abundance makes me poor.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Do not call yourself poor because your dreams were not ful-filled; truly poor is the one who never dreamed.
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams.
If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty.
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
A man's nobility is not affected by poverty, as it is by riches.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
