Degrading Quote by Peter Singer

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of…

— Johan Norberg

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of…

— James Gustave Speth

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 is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them…

— Pope Francis

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 breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

— Irwin Redlener

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently…

— Samuel Johnson

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

— Anonymous