Money Quote by Nathan Rosenberg

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

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

— Patricia Hampl

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

“…poverty is not interesting, either to the poor or to the rich. It is the curse of the decent poor to be so utterly…

— Earl Shorris

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

— Plato

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical…

— Alain de Botton

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

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is…

— Plutarch

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything…

— Seneca the Younger

“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