Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Michel de Montaigne

We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Herbert Hoover

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Herbert Hoover

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
Maimonides

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Bertolt Brecht

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
Deng Xiaoping

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.
Joe E. Lewis

Poverty is unnecessary.
Muhammad Yunus

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Anatole France

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
Cat Stevens

Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
Haile Gebrselassie

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
Abigail Van Buren

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster Wallace

There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston

Money can't buy poverty.
Marty Feldman

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot