Famous quotes

Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,808 quotes Who coined it · How we decide

English Italiano Polski עברית Français Português فارسی Español 中文 Русский Deutsch العربية हिन्दी 日本語 Ελληνικά Latina

Money

Love Friendship Happiness Hope Fear Courage Death Life Time War Peace Freedom Truth Wisdom Knowledge Science Art Music Nature Money Work Power God Beauty Laughter Family Success and failure Change Dreams Books and reading

“To live miserable we know not why, to have the dread of hunger, to work sore and yet gain nothing—this is the essence of poverty.”
Robert Hunter (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who are in poverty may be able to get a bare sustenance but they are not able to obtain those necessaries which will permit them to maintain a state of physical efficiency.”
Robert Hunter (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To continue in poverty for any long period means in the end the loss of the power of doing work, and to be unable to work means in the end pauperism.”
Robert Hunter (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the facts of distress, as given, and from opinions formed, both as a charity agent and as a Settlement worker, I should not be at all surprised if the number of those in poverty in New York, as well as in other large cities and industrial centers, rarely fell below 25 per cent of all the people.”
Robert Hunter (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Contrary to every tendency which, in modern society, leads to the separation of men and classes, Tolstoy beseeches us to go to those in hunger and distress, to share their manual labor and even the greatest extreme of their poverty.”
Robert Hunter (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You could kill me right now and I will be permanently dead, and I would willing do that if would end world hunger and poverty. That's a sacrifice! Saying I'm gonna let some people beat me and torture me and kill me, and a day and a half I'm gonna rise up and become what I was before, (...) That's not a sacrifice, that's a bad weekend!”
Matt Dillahunty (born 1969) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Episode 24.04 (January 26, 2020) from The Atheist Experience (Link is unavailable on YouTube)
“Whoever refuses to follow Christ in His poverty will never possess Him in the abundance of His graces and virtues in this life, nor in His glory in the next. To possess nothing and to be nothing is to be full of God.”
John of St. Samson (1572–1636) said by 1636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Marriage and dependent children are a trap for the people! Morality carefully hides this distressing truth from us because it knows no remedy for the evil. But I , who bring a remedy must not dissimulate the woes from fathers, and I must not dissimulate from society its radical vice of pushing seven-eighths of all families into evil practices through poverty.”
Charles Fourier (1772–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.”
Paul Rudnick (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've a one track mind, sir. Poverty and gloom. Never a joyous picture of mine you'll see.Always gloom. I never do a jolly picture.”
L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Downsizing military budgets will enable sustainable development, the eradication of extreme poverty, the tackling of global challenges including pandemics and climate change, educating and socializing youth towards peace, cooperation and international solidarity.”
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must speak up for the children of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan who are suffering from terrorism, poverty, child labour and child trafficking. Let us help them through our voice, action and charity. Let us help them to read books and go to school. And let us not forget that even one book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.”
Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.”
Malala Yousafzai (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many people today see genes as a reason for aberrant behavior, but the major influences have been shown to be environmental... What is considered appropriate behavior today may be considered un-sane in the future...Better values, ideals, and behavior cannot be fully realized while there is still hunger, unemployment, deprivation, war, and poverty.”
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Samuel Adams had not inherited poverty nor had he, after all, exactly embraced it, but had as it were naturally drifted into it through indifference to worldly gain, the indifference which men of single and fixed purpose have for all irrelevant matters.”
Carl L. Becker (1873–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humanity is at a crossroads. We can continue down the current path of greed, consumerism, oligarchy, poverty, war, racism, and environmental degradation. Or we can lead the world in moving in a very different direction.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now...This revolution is inevitable, the people have endured dictatorship, corruption, poverty and unemployment for years and now the whole thing is exploding”
Tawakkol Karman (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I came from Yemen, the country of civilization, the Yemen that was led by two women, and it was one of the greatest countries in the world. We were led by a dictatorship regime, a corrupted regime. This regime was founded in killing others...My country has a lot of poverty, from a lot of diseases, from ignorance. And these are some of the reasons that led us to lead this revolution.”
Tawakkol Karman (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies – Poverty, unemployment. Whether it is agriculture or industrial development, or for that matter, development in other fields, the basic fact remains – that it would serve the largest number of our people.”
Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lack of rain indeed causes famine but it is also true that the people of India have not the strength to fight evil. The poverty of India is wholly due to the present rule. India is being bled till only the skeleton remains…all the vitality of the people is being sapped and we are left in an emaciated state of slavery.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be united, persevere, and achieve self-Government, so that the millions now perishing by poverty, famine, and plague may be saved, and India may once more occupy her proud position of yore among the greatest and civilized nations of the world".”
Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 1906 at the age of 80 when he became president of the Indian National Congress in Calcutta.
“...entrepreneurship, resulting in large-scale job creation, was the only viable mechanism for eradicating poverty in societies.”
N. R. Narayana Murthy (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(…) you should look to the areas of your countries where people are poverty-stricken and helpless and then do all you can to raise their standard of living, teaching them cleanliness and high morals. To serve the needy truly and from the heart is true service to God. (…).”
Haidakhan Babaji (2000–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is terribly inhumane to block pathways out of poverty because you didn’t need those pathways.”
Bernice King (born 1963) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aug 24, 2022 on Twitter
“Belying the prophecies of doom by many a self-styled Cassandra, the economy has emerged stronger as a result of adjustment effort mounted by us...; We have not cut subsidies. We have not cut wages. We have not compromised on planning... We have not faltered in our commitment to anti-poverty programmes... We have come out of it with our heads high.”
Pranab Mukherjee (1935–2020) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1984 Budget speech, Quoted on BBC News, "Pranab Mukherjee's chequered career", June 26, 2012.
“The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.”
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If making sure that workers get out of poverty would severely impact the economy, then maybe we don't need this economy.”
Kshama Sawant (born 1973) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Kevin Roose, "Meet the Seattle Socialist Leading the Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage", New York magazine (May 26, 2014).
“If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to devote myself entirely to what I loved best in the world. I had never suffered poverty; I had good parents and excellent friends; I can only thank God.”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from Corot's letter to his friend M. Francais in 1875, the year of his death
“Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind’s appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.”
George Horne (1730–1792) said by 1792 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Education is the principal tool of socio-economic development and unless all societies are provided with right type of education, adequate in quality and quantity, it will not be possible to tackle satisfactorily the problem of ignorance of health and poverty which afflicts the majority of human beings in the world.”
V. V. Giri (1894–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gopal Bhargava in: Child Labour, Gyan Publishing House, 1 January 2003, P.96
“Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency.”
Jeet Thayil (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... my dear friend Poverty, nurse of philosophy”
Basil of Caesarea (329–379) said by 379 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I compare that old relic with myself... ruins and dilapidation. What a difference between then and now. Then, youth, strength and riches; now age, weakness and poverty.”
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted by Dayton Duncan, Geoffrey C. Ward "Lachryma Montis," The West, Episode Eight (1996) referring to his old ranch house near Petaluma, California
“My recent work on macroeconomics has stressed long-term issues, including the determinants of long-run economic growth. From the standpoint of fighting world poverty, nothing is more important than figuring out which policies differentiate the fast-growing countries from the slow-growing ones.”
Robert Barro (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All of America's institutions have become too big to change. Like sumo wrestlers in a basketball game, they move too slow. Big Government, Big Oil, Big Insurance, Big Finance, Big Agriculture, Big Highway, Big Education, Big Military, Big Prison, Big Police, Big Poverty-- these feed on disaster and control. They no longer exist primarily to fix problems, but to grow.”
Paul Glover (born 1947) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (“From the Middle Class to the Mutual Class”), 2011-05-07
“The greatest poverty is the inability to dream.”
Mia Couto (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have very clear ideas about what it’s going to take to end extreme poverty and to share prosperity. In fact, this is what I’ve been doing my whole life. I feel like I’m here for a reason.”
Jim Yong Kim (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are trying to end poverty in the world by 2030 and we’re going to focus especially on the well-being of the bottom 40 per cent of every country.”
Jim Yong Kim (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have lived for 200 years in a growth economy. In this time we have come to believe that all our major economic ills – from unemployment and poverty to overpopulation and even environmental degradation – can be solved by more growth. And if the global economy existed in a void perhaps that would be true. But it does not.”
Herman E. Daly (1938–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.”
Gustavo Gutiérrez (1928–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pivotal element is TIME POVERTY.”
Michael Scott Gallegos first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Blogging Blurts (Sep 11, 2014) quoting from "What is driving urban gentrification?" Economist.com Blog (Sep 17, 2013)
“I say thank you in advance to us all working together to achieve great victories, not just electorally for Labour but emotionally for the whole of our society to show we don't have to be unequal, it doesn't have to be unfair, poverty isn't inevitable, things can and they will change. Thank you very much.”
Jeremy Corbyn (born 1949) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech Jeremy Corbyn’s victory speech as Labour leader (12 September 2015).
“This is not how the 21st century was supposed to be going for us. As a child nurtured on Star Trek reruns, I imagined our species solving poverty, ending war, and colonizing other worlds by now. Silly me. Here I am today discussing a popular belief that reptilian extraterrestrials reside in Buckingham Palace.”
Guy P. Harrison (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...Most of the collective problems that confront citizens (poverty, environmental degradation, war and terrorism, etc.) cannot be addressed locally.”
Talal Asad (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The resources required to rapidly move away from fossil fuels and prepare for the coming heavy weather could pull huge swaths of humanity out of poverty, providing services now sorely lacking, from clean water to electricity. p. 7”
Naomi Klein (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unless you are one hundred and seven years old and a veteran of the Austrian Landwehr, you probably associate democracy with peace, freedom, progress, and prosperity. Since I associate democracy with war, tyranny, destruction and poverty, we certainly have something to talk about.”
Curtis Yarvin (born 1973) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Democracy as an adaptive fiction", Unqualified Reservations (July 25, 2007).
“A priority for us is the creation of more jobs that will minimise poverty and provide for prosperity for all Sri Lankans. Towards this, we need to enhance our capacity to successfully compete in global markets while creating the necessary space for investments to come in.”
Ranil Wickremesinghe (born 1949) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On reducing poverty in SL (Sri Lanka), quoted on World Finance (February 16, 2016), "Sri Lanka has reduced poverty but challenges remain
“We talk of poverty and inequality, but in crafting an economic programme or policy for the future for this country, we must ensure no community, no region should be neglected.”
Anwar Ibrahim (born 1947) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anwar Ibrahim said during a meeting event with bankers and fund managers at a Port Dickson hotel, quoted on The Star Online, "Anwar underscores the need to help the poor", 10 October 2018.
“We have tried (in Malaysia), for the last half-century, a pro-Bumiputra policy that benefited cronies and elites. Look at the figures. Poverty has increased! Inequality has increased! It becomes like a clientelist system. And that needs to be rejected!”
Anwar Ibrahim (born 1947) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anwar Ibrahim (2019) cited in: "Anwar Ibrahim finally has Malaysia's leadership within reach" in Nikkei Asia, 6 November 2019.
“Even this morning in my speech to the World Bank, I said it was important to undertake a study of the causes and the roots of the conflict in the Central African Republic. There are several factors. There is poverty, exclusion of communities and regions. Those who feel excluded react.”
Catherine Samba-Panza (born 1954) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On conflicts in the Central African Republic, as quoted on GWToday, "Leader of the Central African Republic in Roundtable at GW", March 2, 2016.