Bono Quotes

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

Complaint is poverty.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.