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"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

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31464">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.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/664/">Berger, John</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/poverty_and_the_poor/">Poverty and The Poor</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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