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Where there is poverty, there will be destruction and exploitation by the corporations and governments benefitting from destroying our rainforests and trafficking wildlife.
Eileen Anglin
I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.
William Shakespeare
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature but to the injustice of man.
Henry George
Poverty is no sin.
George Edward Herbert
O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
The poor always ye have with you.
Bible
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
Bible
Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
Bible
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
Henry David Thoreau
The rich would have to eat money but luckily the poor provide food.
Russian proverb
There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Spencer Tracy
The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.
Eugene O'Neill
There is no scandal like rags nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
George Farquhar
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
Eric Hoffer
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.
Jerome K. Jerome
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.
Charles Péguy
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
J. K. Galbraith
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
George Bernard Shaw
The poor will always be with you.
Bible
This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
George Gilder
Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.
Will Carleton
He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
S. L. Clemens
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As poor as a church mouse.
English Phrase
Bed is the poor man's opera.
Italian proverb
Hunger is insolent and will be fed.
Alexander Pope
If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.
Arnold Bennett
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller
Poverty - one thing money can't buy.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.
William Shakespeare
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature but to the injustice of man.
Henry George
Poverty is no sin.
George Edward Herbert
O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
The poor always ye have with you.
Bible
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
Bible
Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
Bible
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
Henry David Thoreau
The rich would have to eat money but luckily the poor provide food.
Russian proverb
There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Spencer Tracy
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht
The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.
Eugene O'Neill
There is no scandal like rags nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
George Farquhar
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
Eric Hoffer
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.
Jerome K. Jerome
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F Kennedy
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.
Charles Péguy
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
J. K. Galbraith
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
George Bernard Shaw
The poor will always be with you.
Bible
This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
George Gilder
Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.
Will Carleton
He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
S. L. Clemens
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As poor as a church mouse.
English Phrase
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