poverty Quotes

“In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

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“poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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“One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal. Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor...”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

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“Better poverty without care, than riches with.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

― John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

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“Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

― Plato, The Republic

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“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

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“the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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