Best poverty & luxury Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.”

“I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be - cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world.”

World Nations Easy Poverty Gone Cost Cures Luxury Cents

Author:Brad Pitt

“Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?”

Poor Leader Poverty Type Blame Luxury

Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.”

Poverty Luxury Expensive

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.”

Mind Persons Use Shows Poverty Virtue Proof Luxury Laziness Lofty Industrious Public Good Carelessness Valiant Intemperance Dishonorable

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.”

Way Made Poverty Worry Eating Shoes Luxury Worried Vegetarian Environmentalism

Author:Sherman Alexie

“What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!”

Soul Suffering Poverty Integrity Pure Despair Conscience Disappointment Riches Luxury Anguish Grandeur

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)

“It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.”

Doe Matter Poverty Cold Hunger Luxury Vanity Excess Thirst Avarice Hunger And Thirst

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.”

Wells Done Poverty Luxury Load Rotten Well Done

Book:Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook

Source: Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook

“When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.”

Long Ends Government Lasts Poverty Degrees Luxury Republic Monarchy Insensible

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.”

Hands Poverty Luxury Estates Barren Fertile Goth

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.”

Poverty Ruins Luxury Republic Tyrants Monarchy

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.”

“Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.”

Source: Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

“It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear.”

Facts Poverty Rounds Luxury Atmosphere Anticipation Royal

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)

“I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.”

Found Lost Poverty Sea Grew Grew Up Luxury Gray Unbearable Sumptuous

Book:Lyrical and Critical Essays

Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays

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