Poverty

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."

"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."

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

"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."

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

"Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor."

"The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

"Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."