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.

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.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

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 biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

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.

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.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

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

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

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges – on gifts, trades, loans – and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

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.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

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

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

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

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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.

We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

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

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

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.

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.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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 do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

It’s the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change – as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.

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.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

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.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

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.‘

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