Disaster Quote by Seneca the Younger

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley

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

— Megan Lee

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

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

— Adam Smith

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

— William Hazlitt

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

— Roger McDonald

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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Peter Singer

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

— Juvenal

Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,…

— Wes Moore

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

— Irwin Redlener