Absolutes Quote by Joan Robinson

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

— Plato

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

— Julia Cameron

Countries with higher incomes on average achieve better human development. I do not believe that growth alone will 'cure' poverty. But I do believe…

— Hilary Benn

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising…

— John F. Kennedy

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

— David George

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

— Peter Singer

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

— Jane Austen

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their…

— George Gilder

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

— Margaret Drabble

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it…

— Muhammad Yunus

The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and…

— William James