If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When…

Poverty makes you work really hard.

— Maye Musk

Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many rich people…

— Branko Milanovic

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs…

— Robert McCracken

Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes to the…

— George Holyoake

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means…

— James Payn

Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

— Immortal Technique

“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.”

— André Gide

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

— Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

— Groucho Marx

The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle…

— Rush Limbaugh

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes…

— Mother Teresa

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

— Bertolt Brecht

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial…

— Victor Hugo

“se there was a matter of half a ream of brown paper stuck upon me, from first to last. As I laid all of…

— Charles Dickens