If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)” — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
“If you recieved a nickel for every act of your kindness and had to pay a nickel for every act of your… — Anonymous 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
“Extremes of wealth and poverty are a scandal to Christian brotherhood. They must not be allowed.” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Our eyes are at fault, that is all. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of… — Plato Copy Share Image
The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Poverty, we have said elsewhere, was the primary cause of wealth. It was poverty that created the first capitalist; because, before accumulating… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Since nothing is less stable among men than those external relationships which chance brings about more often than wisdom, and which are… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Preindustrial living standards are predictable based on knowledge of disease and environment. Differences in social energy across societies were muted by the… — Gregory Clark Copy Share Image
…the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state… — Patrick Colquhoun Copy Share Image
“From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were all becoming less unequal. Thanks to progressive… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable… — Ernst Engel Copy Share Image
![“Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2f/anonymous-1_affluent_let-us-look-at-wealth-and-poverty-the-af_2689248.jpg)
