People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

Poverty is unnecessary.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.