Behavior Quote by George Orwell

“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people–people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be…

— George Orwell

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

— Vikas Swarup

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on…

— Geoffrey West

Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and…

— Geoffrey West

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so…

— Lupita Nyong'o

“The slum, with its dirt and its queer lives, was first an object-lesson in poverty, and then the background of my own experiences.”

— George Orwell

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

— J. K. Rowling

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

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

— Cyril Connolly

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

— Peter Singer

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

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