Always believe Quote by Rebecca Solnit

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

— Seneca the Younger

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

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

— Publilius Syrus

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

The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you know, capitalism…

— David Graeber

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

— Megan Lee

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

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves…

— Muhammad Yunus

Most people don't see themselves as sitting on that bottom rung as a defense mechanism. The more they blame poor people for their poverty,…

— Stephanie Land

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

— Jose Mujica

The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But…

— Matthew Desmond

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

— Peter Singer