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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
View quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
View quotes by Lyndon Johnson

In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative terms - the fact that some people lack those things which others in society take for granted.
View quotes by David Cameron

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
View quotes by Audrey Hepburn

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
View quotes by Ray Charles

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
View quotes by Woody Allen

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
View quotes by James Baldwin

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. (Moll Flanders)
View quotes by Daniel Defoe

Poverty is the mother of crime.
View quotes by Marcus Aurelius

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

View quotes by Plutarch

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
View quotes by Charles Peguy

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
View quotes by Norman Vincent Peale

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
View quotes by Henry Fielding

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
View quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
View quotes by Jean Paul Richter

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
View quotes by John Gardner

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
View quotes by Kahlil Gibran

Affluence creates poverty.
View quotes by Marshall McLuhan

Luxury! More perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
View quotes by Hannah More



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