Poverty
The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
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Poverty Quotations
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
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.
Mother Teresa
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Mark Twain
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Poverty Translations
poverty in Afrikaans is armoede
poverty in Danish is fattigdom
poverty in Dutch is gebrek, armoede
poverty in German is Armut {f}, verarmt, Armut {f}
poverty in Latin is ieiunitas, paupertas
poverty in Norwegian is fattigdom
poverty in Portuguese is pobreza
poverty in Spanish is pobreza, indigencia
poverty in Swedish is fattigdom, armod
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