Philosophical Quote by André Gide

“He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.”

— Ninotchka Rosca

“There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.”

— Tom Morrison

“Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.”

— Paula Brackston

“The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The lazy man is the slave of his own feelings. His body is his master; not his servant. He is the slave of circumstances.”

— William Dewitt Hyde

“…poverty is not interesting, either to the poor or to the rich. It is the curse of the decent poor to be so utterly…

— Earl Shorris

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has.”

— Rita Gonzalez

“You give your way out of poverty but you sacrifice your way to wealth.”

— McWilton Chikwenengere

“I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from…

— Ernest Hemingway

“He who desires is always poor.”

— Claudius