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Poverty Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
- Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
- The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not…
- The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the…
- Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it
- Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
- Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
- In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty…
- Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
- Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
- Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection…
- The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
- Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is…
- A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
- You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not…
- If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not…
- The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance, drink, war, pestilence, nor any of the other scapegoats which…
More Poverty Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- Poverty is the mother of crime. — Marcus Aurelius
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin