My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
Narendra ModiI was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.
EminemI come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
Narendra ModiSatan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander PopeHappiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.
Robert Baden-PowellTo 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.
Baruch SpinozaIn a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
ConfuciusSome 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.
David ByrneA weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
Mahatma GandhiI was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
Lady GagaSimulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
Lao TzuUnrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.
Pope FrancisThe belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.
Bill GatesWhen rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
Jean-Paul SartreEven though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
Charles BukowskiThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. KennedyThe doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
Arthur SchopenhauerYou cannot be creative with people around you.
Karl LagerfeldThe display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDo 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.
George Bernard ShawThe monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert EinsteinBut Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander PopeLife is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Jim CarreyIt’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.
Stephen HawkingLoneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother TeresaI have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David ThoreauIt is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonI would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David ThoreauThe problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.
Robert KiyosakiNigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
Bill GatesThe career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao TzuWe are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
Benjamin FranklinReligion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon BonaparteThere are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma GandhiIn football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.
Cristiano RonaldoOur passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander PopeCapitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
Martin Luther King, Jr.You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz KafkaPoverty 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?
BonoI restore myself when I’m alone.
Marilyn MonroePoverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. JohnsonA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William JamesThe common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. MenckenI see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.
Vincent Van GoghAll 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.
Desmond TutuThere is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThese 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.
Pope FrancisAh, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert CamusI am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.
Taylor SwiftThe worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis BaconI have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.
Audrey HepburnGreat men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur SchopenhauerResolve 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.
Samuel JohnsonSolitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston ChurchillWeakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert EinsteinWhat charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Stephen KingIf we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
Richard M. NixonThe 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.
Alan WattsHe who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca