Modern society Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“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

“Poverty is no crime; always remember that. After all, why should we despair? Our present difficulties will pass away, and God will right us.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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 entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

“Poverty cannot be defeated unless you first defeat it in the mind.”

— Nicky Verd

“Humanity will be better served when those in power, privileged and keepers of it's flame realize that poverty is not a crime nor a…

— Timothy Pina

Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,…

— Muriel Barbery

“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we…

— Matthew Desmond

“Poverty is not a natural conclusion. It is an intervention. We are not poor because we are inferior as a group of people; we…

— Frances Varian

“In all my travels I saw very little real poverty, I mean the grinding terrifying poorness of the Thirties. That at least was real…

— John Steinbeck

“Poverty alleviation occurs when the power of Christ's resurrection reconciles our key relationships through the transformation of both individual lives and local, national, and…

— Brian Fikkert