Industrialism-social-divide Quote by Ivan Illich

“P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency”

— Ivan Illich

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

— Dervla Murphy

“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation.…

— Patrick Colquhoun

“from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological poverty, which puts the very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without…

— Secundus the Silent

“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in…

— Dean Karlan

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

— Benjamin Franklin

“Welfare bureaucracies claim a professional, political, and financial monopoly over the social imagination, setting standards of what is valuable and what is feasible. This…

— Ivan Illich

Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible…

— Pete Townshend

“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

One persons concept of wealth, is anothers understanding of poverty.

— Wealth Poverty

“Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with unhealthy environmental…

— Uzoma Nnadi