Financial Deprivation Quotes

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just - there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just - it is a Cinderella story to me.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

Poverty makes slaves of free men.

Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed.

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

Poverty is slavery.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.