Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those…

— Joseph Stiglitz

There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and…

— Victor Hugo

It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the inequality is…

— Juan Manuel Santos

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is…

— Lewis H. Lapham

No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once…

— Will Hutton

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

— William J. H. Boetcker

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

— Zong Qinghou

There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience…

— Madsen Pirie

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at…

— Plato

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…

— Samuel Johnson

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

— George Herbert

Who, being loved, is poor?

— Oscar Wilde

“Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana