He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn’t even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.

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.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Affluence means influence.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.