Economics Quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Poverty, we have said elsewhere, was the primary cause of wealth. It was poverty that created the first capitalist; because, before accumulating "surplus value,"…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we…

— Matthew Desmond

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left?…

— Rush Limbaugh

“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously, that a…

— Kathryn Edin

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined…

— Charles Murray

“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

“What do we mean by poverty? Not what Dickens or Blake or Mayhew meant. Today no one seriously expects to go hungry in England…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Poverty is the origin of invention”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Poverty is a condition that resides in the heart . . . not in the wallet.”

— Jo Ann V. Glim

“It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments…

— Richard Ebeling

“Poverty is not a natural conclusion. It is an intervention. We are not poor because we are inferior as a group of people; we…

— Frances Varian