poverty Quotes

“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking...”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“Every citizen, it is said, must have equality, and therefore in a democracy the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“My friends, some years ago, the Federal Government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

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“he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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“The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy to invade his possessions.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“No complaint, however, is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“If you’re in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help—the only ones.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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