Poverty Quotes
Juvenal has the most entries, with Solomon, Shakespeare, Ali and the Nigerian politician Peter Obi after him. The older sourced material is blunt. Shaw’s Major Barbara (1905) calls poverty the greatest of evils and the worst of crimes, and Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village (1770) has a line addressed to poetry: “that found’st me poor at first, and keep’st me so.” Mark Twain gets in a joke in 1869, saying that a man is fast rising from affluence to poverty.
Three entries are flagged. “Poverty is the worst kind of violence” is credited to Gandhi as disputed. A passage on love having hands to help others is credited to Augustine, also disputed. “Widespread poverty and concentrated wealth cannot long endure side by side in a democracy” is credited to Thomas Jefferson and flagged misattributed.
Most quoted on poverty:
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.
A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
Poverty and adversity is the cause of the soul’s rebellion, revolt, and the gravity of dismay.
Sleeping late in the morning is the origin of poverty and short life.
Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.
Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.
The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered.