Bad character Quote by Sarah Kendzior

“Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck”

— Celso Cukierkorn

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then…

— Anonymous

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune…

— Hannah Arendt

“…poverty is not interesting, either to the poor or to the rich. It is the curse of the decent poor to be so utterly…

— Earl Shorris

“We will rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly... In poverty she is envious. In riches she may…

— John Steinbeck

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires…

— Geraldine Brooks

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical…

— Alain de Botton

“When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors…

— Anne McCaffrey

“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.”

— Seneca

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

— James Cook

“The honest poor are the moneyless vulgar rich. Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money. Then when…

— John Fowles

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

— Saul Alinsky