Poverty Quote by C.L.R. James

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented…

— Anonymous

“Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Poverty is easier to conquer than injustice.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.”

— Seneca

“poverty always breeds violence in one way or another.”

— Heather Graham

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold…

— Peter Cook

“Any property taken away from others, whether by stealth, fraud or violence, must be wrong: but to take away men themselves, and keep them…

— Ottobah Cugoano known as John Stuart

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

“The majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike from pissing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread.”

— Anatole France

“Actually, everyone, in one way or the other is being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, be it racial injustice, inequality, economic injustice, and the…

— Sunday Adelaja

“These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.”

— Anthony Liccione