Comfortable Quote by Murray Kempton

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity…

— Duane Elgin

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

— Jean Paul

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

— Wallace Stevens

“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness of this…

— Lewis Hyde

Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine…

— Louisa May Alcott

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

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

— Don Herold

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

— Coco Chanel

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible…

— Lillian B. Rubin

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse…

— Washington Irving

It cannot be right that in a civilised society and alongside such wealth, so many cannot afford to feed their families.

— Rachel Reeves

In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent…

— Duane Elgin