Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

a call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

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

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

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