poverty Quotes

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

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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“'Tis hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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“The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“To prevent the perpetuation of poverty is necessary if the benefits of machine production are to accrue in any degree to those most in need of them; but what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

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“The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look at Père-Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The little people, the poor, the unhappy,...”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“The world is very different now, for man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.”

― John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

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“Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who make money from it should put back into society, not just sit on it as if they are hatching eggs.”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

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