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Image of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Collection: Poverty
Image of Oscar Wilde
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Poverty
Image of W. S. Merwin
I offer you what I have my Poverty
- W. S. Merwin
Collection: Poverty
Image of Joseph Stiglitz
Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.
- Joseph Stiglitz
Collection: Poverty
Image of Joseph Murphy
There is no virtue in poverty.
- Joseph Murphy
Collection: Poverty
Image of William Shakespeare
And makes me poor indeed.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Poverty
Image of William Shakespeare
Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Poverty
Image of William Shakespeare
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Poverty
Image of Antoine Rivarol
Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.
- Antoine Rivarol
Collection: Poverty
Image of Adrienne Rich
The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude
- Adrienne Rich
Collection: Poverty
Image of Matt Taibbi
Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.
- Matt Taibbi
Collection: Poverty
Image of Ouida
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
- Ouida
Collection: Poverty
Image of Seneca the Younger
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Poverty
Image of Dolly Parton
The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.
- Dolly Parton
Collection: Poverty
Image of Charles Baudelaire
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work
- Charles Baudelaire
Collection: Poverty
Image of Josh Billings
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.
- Josh Billings
Collection: Poverty
Image of Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.
- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Collection: Poverty
Image of Seneca the Younger
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Poverty
Image of George Bernard Shaw
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Poverty
Image of Oscar Wilde
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Poverty
Image of Mother Teresa
Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.
- Mother Teresa
Collection: Poverty
Image of Jacob Zuma
Criminality is always the result of poverty.
- Jacob Zuma
Collection: Poverty
Image of Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
With poverty everything becomes frightful.
- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Collection: Poverty
Image of Aphra Behn
Come away; poverty's catching.
- Aphra Behn
Collection: Poverty
Image of Ali ibn Abi Talib
Poverty is the worst form of death.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Collection: Poverty
Image of Shane Claiborne
There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.
- Shane Claiborne
Collection: Poverty
Image of Benjamin Carson
Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.
- Benjamin Carson
Collection: Poverty
Image of James Arthur Ray
Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.
- James Arthur Ray
Collection: Poverty
Image of John Hagee
Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.
- John Hagee
Collection: Poverty
Image of Paula White
You're either in a position of abundance or you're in a position of poverty. Now, that's every area of your life. That's not just financially.
- Paula White
Collection: Poverty
Image of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poverty has strange bedfellows.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Collection: Poverty
Image of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Collection: Poverty
Image of Jean de la Bruyere
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
- Jean de la Bruyere
Collection: Poverty
Image of Lester R. Brown
In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.
- Lester R. Brown
Collection: Poverty
Image of Benjamin Carson
I just hated poverty.
- Benjamin Carson
Collection: Poverty
Image of Publilius Syrus
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.
- Publilius Syrus
Collection: Poverty
Image of Diogenes
Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.
- Diogenes
Collection: Poverty
Image of Mason Cooley
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.
- Mason Cooley
Collection: Poverty
Image of Riane Eisler
If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).
- Riane Eisler
Collection: Poverty
Image of Matt Damon
It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.
- Matt Damon
Collection: Poverty
Image of Kofi Annan
Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.
- Kofi Annan
Collection: Poverty
Image of Margaret Drabble
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
- Margaret Drabble
Collection: Poverty
Image of Mary Baker Eddy
Complaint is poverty.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Collection: Poverty
Image of Frederick Lenz
Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.
- Frederick Lenz
Collection: Poverty
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poor are only they who feel poor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Poverty
Image of Dogen
When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.
- Dogen
Collection: Poverty
Image of F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Collection: Poverty