Accepting Quote by Charles Handy

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

— H. L. Mencken

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their…

— Aga Khan IV

Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others.…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

— Pope Francis

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

— Dennis Banks

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance…

— Paul Hawken

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided,…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the…

— Alice Foote MacDougall

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

— Ignatius of Loyola

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

— Mother Teresa

“there is nothing arrogant about mentioning ordinary people’s material concerns: the poor have the right to do it, and to talk about a readiness…

— Slavoj Žižek