Autumn Quote by Wallace Stevens

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Poverty cannot be defeated unless you first defeat it in the mind.”

— Nicky Verd

“By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things: wealth will…

— Plutarch

“He who restrains himself within the limits prescribed by nature, will not feel poverty; he who exceeds them will always be poor, however great…

— Seneca

“We shall be rich with all the more comfort, if we once learn how far poverty is from being a burden”

— Seneca

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he…

— James Ellis

“Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself to sustain and…

— Og Mandino

In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or…

— Anonymous

“Famine is good to the corn-merchant, evil to the poor, and indifferent to those whose fortunes can at all times command a superfluity. Ambition…

— Christopher Hitchens

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

— Benjamin Franklin

Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others.…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Under civilization poverty is born of superabundance itself.”

— Charles Fourier