Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. ~Heinrich Heine Every man has a right to be poor.
A famous quotes about poverty by Richard Jefferies
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
A famous quotes about poverty by Sydney Smith
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
A famous quotes about poverty by John Gardner
Seldom do people discern
Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
A famous quotes about poverty by Juvenal
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ~P.J. O'Rourke
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. A famous quotes about poverty by Henry David Thoreau
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
A famous quotes about poverty by Willem de Kooning
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. A famous quotes about poverty by John Berger
To a man with an empty stomach food is God.
A famous quotes about poverty by Gandhi
Poverty is the mother of crime.
A famous quotes about poverty by Marcus Aurelius
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
A famous quotes about poverty by Mahatma Gandhi
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
A famous quotes about poverty by W.C. Fields
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
A famous quotes about poverty by William James
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
A famous quotes about poverty by Norman Vincent Peale
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
A famous quotes about poverty by Pearl S. Buck
Affluence creates poverty.
A famous quotes about poverty by Marshall McLuhan
We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was.
A famous quotes about poverty by Bernard Malamud
