Quotes About Poverty

Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor. Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation. The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the “I care” photo opportunities that dominate aid. Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens. You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities. Electorates tend to get the politicians they deserve

Poverty is everyone’s problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are all touched by poverty

God is the comfort of the poor.

You can’t get rid of poverty by [mindlessly] giving people money.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.

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

It’s easy to have principles when you’re rich. The important thing is to have principles when you’re poor.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.