Affluence Quote by Ray Charles

Affluence creates poverty.

— Marshall McLuhan

Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do…

— Mother Teresa

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes…

— Mother Teresa

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Anonymous

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

— Antonio Porchia

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

Poverty should not accumulate to just absence of food: Sometimes its the absence of our ability to ignore other irrelevant desires.

— Anonymous

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

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is…

— Jack Monroe

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

— Kirk Douglas