Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“So in concrete terms, just how much dumber does poverty make you? “Our effects correspond to between 13 and 14 IQ points,” Shafir says.…

— Rutger Bregman

South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that…

— Mamphela Ramphele

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of…

— Josiah Strong

“If I am to choose between integrity and wealth, I will go for integrity because I believe that lack of integrity is the first…

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

— Ahmed Sekou Toure

It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man,…

— Ann Radcliffe

Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.

— John Climacus

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided,…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Time is the only inborn wealth”

— Sunday Adelaja