Poverty Quotes
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
The rich men are answerable for the misery of the poor.
Yet they are not aware of their own power to control.
They look away like any man
And so it goes, the poor endure.
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving.
Bed is the poor man's opera.
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
With poverty everything becomes frightful.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
Poverty is the mother of crime.
Poverty is death in another form.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.
