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“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.”

Made Values Literature Born Poor Poverty Fate Taught True Value

Author:Anatole France

“Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.”

“False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.”

Men Literature Wealth Poor Poverty Shame Profit Harm Accompany

Author:Hesiod

“Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.”

Literature Poverty Loved Ones Load Assistance

Author:Jean Paul

“The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.”

World Whole Literature Poor Poverty Rich Heard Cry Civilized Vaccines

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.”

Should Literature Poverty Misery Hideous Picturesque

Book:The Macdermots of Ballycloran: Trollope's Works

Source: The Macdermots of Ballycloran: Trollope's Works