Common Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

— George Bernard Shaw

Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has…

— Samuel Johnson

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“One of the things I’ve read about borderlines is that we alternate between a sense of entitlement and the belief that we’re lower than…

— Stacy Pershall

Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,…

— Muriel Barbery

“So long as any large group of persons, anywhere on this earth, believe the ancient superstition that some Authority is responsible for their welfare,…

— Rose Wilder Lane

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

“Rather, when famine, plague or war break out of our control, we feel that somebody must have screwed up, we set up a commission…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

— Dorothy Day