Contempt Quote by Juvenal

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can…

— Martin Luther

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

— Pope Benedict XVI

O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great,…

— Elijah Fenton

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

— William Hazlitt

Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable,…

— Saint John Chrysostom

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

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

— Henry George

The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“In all my travels I saw very little real poverty, I mean the grinding terrifying poorness of the Thirties. That at least was real…

— John Steinbeck

“beyond blows and hunger there is something that hurts even more: poverty”

— Jacob Dinezon

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their…

— Aga Khan IV

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving…

— Thomas R. Kelly