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The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright

Benjamin Franklin

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kin Hubbard

Who, being loved, is poor?

Oscar Wilde

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream

Harry Kemp

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

James Baldwin

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

Ronald Reagan

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

Plato

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Aristotle

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Mother Teresa

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Martin Luther King Jr

Real poverty is lack of books

Sidonie Gabrielle

In wealth, many friends; in poverty, not even relatives.

Japanese Proverb

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

Andrew Cuomo

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Kahlil Gibran

Being poor is a little like having an earache over a Bank Holiday. All you can think about is the pain and how long it will be before a healing hand can be found to take away the anguish.

Tom Baker

Of course, for a lot of people, death was a welcome change. Grinding poverty takes the edge off most things, including life.

Tom Baker

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Mother Teresa

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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