Body Quote by Rebecca West

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

— Katie Davis

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

— John Hagee

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

— William Hazlitt

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

— Horace

“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

Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand,…

— Plutarch

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

— Michel de Montaigne

“The spirit of poverty always causes a person to do two things: blame their circumstance for their lack, and feel entitled.”

— Kynan Bridges

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

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

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become…

— Slavoj Žižek

Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

— William Hazlitt