There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
Gerrit Smith | Poor, Poverty
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
Michel de Montaigne – Poverty
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
Anatole France – Poverty, Law
The poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the soul is irreparable.
Michel de Montaigne – Poverty
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.
John Berger – Poverty
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
William James – Fear of Poverty
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Friedrich Schiller – Poverty
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
E. M. Forster – Poverty
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.
William James – Poverty
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires how many aspirations after goodness and truth how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
Walt Whitman – Poverty
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
Orison Swett Marden – Poverty
When neither their poverty nor their honour is touched, the majority of men live content.
Niccolo Machiavelli – Poverty
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.
Henry David Thoreau – Poverty
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
Josh Billings – Poverty
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
