Believe Quote by Grant Shapps

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then…

— Anonymous

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently…

— Samuel Johnson

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein

Fighting poverty is nothing new for the Conservative Party, but during the 1980s the emphasis placed on individualism and prosperity was sometimes seen to…

— Grant Shapps

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

— Theodore Parker

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

— Joseph Stiglitz

“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves…

— Muhammad Yunus

“If we’re all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we come up with,…

— Bob Torres

Under the regime of neoliberalism, individual responsibility becomes the only politics that matters, and serves to blame those who are susceptible to larger systemic…

— Henry Giroux

“The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor.”

— Bryant McGill

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never…

— Christian Nestell Bovee