More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

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

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

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.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

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.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

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.

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.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

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.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

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.‘

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

The 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.

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

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

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

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.

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

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

The 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.