There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If poverty is the number one problem,why try working on it instead of talking about it. — Nix Copy Share Image
You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden. — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty. — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a… — Ruth Manorama Copy Share Image
“Racism—if you look closely—is about profit. The whole system was built on it. War—if you look closely—is about profit. Poverty, which is… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
poverty ... is very bad for the formation of a personality. ... Not until I knew for certain where my next meal… — Helen Westley Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Poverty is no crime; always remember that. After all, why should we despair? Our present difficulties will pass away, and God will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread,… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“When a third wave of poverty overwhelmed me, I knew with even greater certitude than when I had lived in Clerkenwell that… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“It is no coincidence that pollution so often accompanies poverty. Imagine a cost-benefit analysis of siting an undesirable facility, such as a… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
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.… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
“Extremes of wealth and poverty are a scandal to Christian brotherhood. They must not be allowed.” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance. — Ore Abayomi Copy Share Image
“No man has been rewarded world's richest man for sleeping away his every day and night.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The intelligent run from poverty, the enlightened flee from greed.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water. — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
“You can't change generational poverty by sitting on your ass. Let's get to work!” — Damen Lopez Copy Share Image
“Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
