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“poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.”
Source: The Economy of Cities
“Poverty has strange bedfellows.”
“Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.”
Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
“Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.”
“Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.”
Source: Sea Glass
“Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.”
“Poverty I am too beautiful to be like you. Sickness from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet, I belong to God.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“Poverty, I salute you. Through
your grace I have become a magician.
For I can see the world, but none see me.”
Source: Simhasana Dvatrimsika: Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya
“Poverty in a big city is more humiliating and deadening to all the joys of life than it can possibly be elsewhere.”
Source: The Bread Line A Story of a Paper
“Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.”
“Poverty in America is actively denied by the way we define it: as falling below an arbitrary income line at a single moment in time. The official poverty line makes poverty looks like a regrettable anomaly that can be explained away by poor decisions, individual behavior, and cultural pathology. In fact, poverty is an often-temporary state experienced cyclically by a huge number of people from wildly different backgrounds displaying a nearly infinite range of behaviors.”
Source: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
“Poverty in America is not invisible. We see it, and then we look away.”
Source: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
“Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they cannot produce anything highly valued by others. They can produce things highly valued by others but are hampered or prevented from doing so. Or, they volunteer to be poor.”
“Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.”
Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right
“Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.”
Source: The Goblins of Eros
“Poverty in your mind is ignorance.
Poverty in your heart is bitterness.
Poverty in your soul is arrogance.
Poverty in your life is foolishness.
Wealth in your mind is intelligence.
Wealth in your heart is happiness.
Wealth in your soul is excellence.
Wealth in your life is blessedness.”
“Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will toward effort, and the whole soul toward aspiration. Poverty instantly lays material life bare and renders it hideous; hence inexpressible bounds toward the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and brilliant distractions, horse races, hunting, tobacco, gaming, good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the creation admits which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he beholds God. He dreams, he feels himself great; he dreams on and feels himself tender.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, is magnificent in that it turns the whole will toward effort and the whole soul toward aspiration.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.”
“Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.”
Source: Works: The strenuous life
“Poverty is a bitter weed to most women, and there are few indeed who can accept it with dignity.”
“Poverty is a capitalist invention,
Third world obscurity is colonial construct.
History of the west is history of abuse,
World hunger is a western by-product.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people”
“Poverty is a circumstance, yet it is the will of God; and the most beloved servant to God is a grateful poor person.”
“Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists”
“Poverty is a culture cultivated by a poor mindset which can not evolve or accept possibilities of rising higher .”
“Poverty is a curse.
Don't call it.
It takes few generations to come out from the curse of poverty.”
“Poverty is a disease that must be diagnosed and then completely avoided in all societies.”
“Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup.”
“Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.”
“Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have abundance of good because it is your divine heritage. Your creator wants you that way.”
“Poverty is a funny phenomenon. It is always defined financially and always relative to what other people earn. It is possible to be extremely happy despite having little money and being officially categorised as poverty-stricken. You can also be really unhappy despite earning a high salary. Those who always want something more will always live in poverty, regardless of how much they earn, while those who are content with what they have will always feel they have an abundance. Most poverty in the UK isn't material poverty, it's spiritual poverty, a state of mind in which fulfilment comes only from the pursuit of material gain.”
Source: The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living
“Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.”
“Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great educator. Mostly it teaches, I am afraid, cynicism. But not always. Television is a great educator as well. Mostly it teaches consumerism. But not always. It is the "not always" that keeps the romantic spirit alive in those who write about schooling. The faith is that despite some of the more debilitating teachings of culture itself, something can be done in school that will alter the lenses through which one sees the world; which is to say, that nontrivial schooling can provide a point of view from which what IS can be seen clearly, what WAS as a living present, and what WILL BE as filled with possibility”
“Poverty is a great equalizer”
Source: Three Classic Thrillers 3-Book Bundle: The Firm, The Appeal, The Chamber
“Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.”
Source: Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon
“Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.”
“Poverty is a makeup artist in disguise.”
“Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!”
“Poverty is a matter of mental state.”
“Poverty is a mentality not a financial condition”.”
“Poverty is a mindset: It creates that sense of scarcity. You then become accustomed to it such that your life is hinged on protecting the scarce resources that you have. However, you can only create a mindset of abundance by investing what you have and not savings. Savings only becomes significant if it's done with a motive to invest.”
“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation. It is the lot of man – it is the source of wealth, since without poverty there would be no labour, and without labour there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth.”
“Poverty is a nation with no borders and he is no foreigner in it but a native son.”
Source: There Are Rivers in the Sky
“Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.”
“Poverty is a pandemic disease that must be cured, sooner or later.”
“Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.”
“Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.”
“Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.”