Poverty Perspective Quotes

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

If someone who is poor says, 'I may not have much money, but for me, what's really important is to have a good television so my family can enjoy and watch,' we should be a little careful and recognize that just like we all have individual liberty to make the choices we want, that we not judge too much on that.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.