The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
Alfred Marshall

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
Hans Kung

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
Michael Pollan

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
Gordon Parks

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
Maxine Waters

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
Ibrahim Babangida

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
Paul Hawken

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.
Paul Farmer

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Isaiah Berlin

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
Little Richard

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
Loretta Lynn

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
Hedy Lamarr

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
Nelson Rockefeller

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome