Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.
- Aaron BernsteinIt is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
- Adam FalkIt is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Adam GladstoneWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
- Abdul MajidIt is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
- Abner LouimaI think that`s how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, `Gee, I`m enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn`t cold enough, let`s go west.`
- Richard JeniWhen the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
- Andy GinsburgBut I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
- William Butler YeatsWho, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar WildePoverty and War have no excuse.
- Vanna BontaLaziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
- Benjamin FranklinPoverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things
- Benjamin FranklinYou are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
- George Bernard ShawLife, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
- Victor HugoThe inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence
- Samuel JohnsonYou can`t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
- P.J. O'RourkeDespite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
- Thomas SowellThe principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children can be sternly lectured on the need for self-reliance, but not dependent executives and investors, please. For them, the welfare state must flourish.
- Avram Noam ChomskyIn a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
- ConfuciusPoverty breeds lack of self-reliance
- Daniel DeleonWhat fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating
- Jean AnouilhA man who has nothing can whistle in a robber`s face
- JuvenalPoverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mahatma GandhiIt is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.
- Martin Luther KingIt is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
- Mother Teresa of CalcuttaWe think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
- Mother Teresa of CalcuttaThe most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa of CalcuttaWealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
- PlatoPoverty wants much; but avarice, everything
- Publilius SyrusI am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.
- Sylvia PankhurstAn avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful
- Thucydides