"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."

Bagehot, Walter | Poverty and The Poor | 1 bookmarks

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

Aristotle | Poverty and The Poor | 3 bookmarks

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing."

Berger, John | Poverty and The Poor | 2 bookmarks

"A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread."

Bernanos, Georges | Poverty and The Poor | 2 bookmarks

"The destruction of the poor is their poverty."

Bible | Poverty and The Poor | 1 bookmarks

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."

Bois, W. E. B. Du | Poverty and The Poor | 1 bookmarks

"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor | Ideas | 8 bookmarks

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

Baldwin, James | Poverty and The Poor | 3 bookmarks