Ben Carson Quotes

Complaint is poverty.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

There is no peace in poverty

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

The high price, therefore, which is so much complained of by the poor, has essentially mitigated their distress by bringing down to their level two or three millions more, and making them almost equal sharers in the pressure of the scarcity.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.