Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in…

— David Cameron

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor…

— Anonymous

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating…

— Terence McKenna

Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble…

— Linda Grant

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the…

— Thomas Gray

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

— Plato

Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression…

— Theophile Gautier

“Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.”

— Victor Hugo

Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own…

— Stanley Kubrick

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to…

— Anatole France

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile…

— Anonymous