Poverty is the state of being extremely poor.

1. Poverty Of Course Is No Disgrace But It Is Damned Annoying.

William Pitt

2. It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as God’s will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe you—try to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as God’s will yourself!

Thomas Merton

3. He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Victor Hugo

4. The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible

Anonymous

5. What Hurts Me Most Is Poverty And Thats What Led Me To Become A Rebel.

Hugo Chavez

6. The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty.

Nelson Mendela

7. When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at window.

John Clarke

8. An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. … An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

9. In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

10. Poverty does not lose honour

Anonymous

11. Poverty is the root of disorders in the country.

Mozi

12. Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

May Sarton

13. When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Dom Helder Camara

14. Poverty is not being without money, but being without hope

Anonymous

15. I grew up below the poverty line; I didn’t have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

Justin Bieber