Poor Quote by Margaret Drabble

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a…

— Christopher Ryan

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

— Seneca the Younger

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is…

— Bill Gates

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

— Ferdinand Mount

“Poverty is not a natural conclusion. It is an intervention. We are not poor because we are inferior as a group of people; we…

— Frances Varian

“The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true…

— Tony Judt

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

— Matthew Desmond

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

— Marco Rubio

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose…

— Adam Davidson

To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the…

— Thomas Pogge