Affliction Quote by Hosea Ballou

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

— Michel de Montaigne

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

— William Gurnall

“Misfortune and experience are lost upon mankind, when they produce neither reflection nor reformation. Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases…

— Thomas Paine

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

— Euripides

I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see…

— Brad Pitt

“Since I could not forget the wounds to people and planet, could not unlearn the dismal numbers--of pollution and population and poverty--that foretold catastrophe,…

— Scott Russell Sanders

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

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Most of the suffering in the world could be avoided if people choose to do good.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him,…

— Thomas Carlyle

“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the…

— Sarah Kendzior

Two things destroy people : fear of poverty and seeking for fanciful honors

— Anonymous