Century Quote by Dustin Hoffman

poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end…

— Gabrielle Roy

Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even…

— Kumi Naidoo

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

— Washington Irving

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

The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most…

— Rick Bragg

Homeless people living in a poor country - by acceptable means, is common almost unavoidable. Homeless people living in a rich one, a disgrace

— Alexander Fennis

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but…

— John Berger

People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I wonder what…

— Paul Bettany

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

— Matthew Desmond

People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.

— Sheila McKechnie

“Throughout history, societies have suffered from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological…

— Yuval Noah Harari