Materials Quote by Richard P. Feynman

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

— Socrates

“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest struggle for…

— 1884 Henry George (Progress and Poverty

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

— Frederik Willem de Klerk

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

— Peter Singer

“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation.…

— Patrick Colquhoun

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

“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society. For…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Anonymous

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 is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

— Muhammad Yunus

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

— Wallace Stevens