Certain Quote by Christopher Ryan

“Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins explains that…

— Christopher Ryan

The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is…

— Marshall Sahlins

“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without…

— Secundus the Silent

“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation.…

— Patrick Colquhoun

Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have…

— Catherine Ponder

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend…

— Nelson Mandela

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not…

— Eric Butterworth

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it…

— Muhammad Yunus

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

— Anonymous

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your…

— Ana Castillo