Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

The chaos of poverty feeds on itself.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

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.

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.

I do not accept the fact that a person should be poor if he works very hard.

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

The great mass of the poor in countries are become an hereditary race, and it is next to impossible them to get out of that state of themselves

The old simplifications about "more" schools and "more" housing, or even "better" schools or "better" housing, have not proved very successful in breaking the cycle of poverty or in dealing with the Negro family structure.

I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty. They would never have a union because they couldn't afford to sacrifice a little bit more on top of their misery.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.