Poverty Quotes

On what must an elite be founded? a) Purity of soul. b) Capacity of work and creativity. c) Bravery. d) Tough living and permanent warring against difficulties facing the nation. e) Poverty, namely voluntary renunciation of amassing a fortune. f) Faith in God. g) Love.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Mark Twain

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

Benjamin Franklin

Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent.

Terry Pratchett

Poverty is the parent of revolution

Aristotle

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Oscar Wilde

In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth.

Victor Hugo

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

Oscar Wilde

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 00,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 3 annually on the victims of poverty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The good Socialist works with religious zeal for the redemption of mankind from the evils of poverty and ignorance.... He is conscious of the beauty of the ideal... he works on... for the deliverance of the human spirit from the enslavement of material things.

Herbert Morrison

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

William Shakespeare

All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty. This, only this, the rigid Law persues.

Samuel Johnson

And makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Jane Addams

People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man, with the work habit in his bones, needs work even more than he needs money. An educated man can put up with enforced idleness, which is one of the worst evils of poverty. But a man like Paddy, with no means of filling up time, is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain. That is why it is such nonsense to pretend that those who have 'come down in the world' are to be pitied above all others.The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start,and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind.

George Orwell

Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

George Bernard Shaw

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Aristotle

Paper is poverty,... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Thomas Jefferson

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

Victor Hugo