Cruelty walked the Warrens holding hands with poverty and rage.
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:
For the most part, righteousness of life leads a man to poverty.
Poverty remains the biggest assault on the dignity of our people.
"Because feeding the nation should never mean living in poverty."
Poverty, dirt, and crime are the products of those, in general, who are not good material.
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
Poverty is what I am writing about, and I had my first contact with poverty in this slum.
Today, India has only two castes – those who are poor and those who want to eradicate poverty.
You may try to destroy wealth, and find that all you have done is to increase poverty.
You have said that your first priority is the eradication of extreme poverty.
A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
A parents' dissatisfaction causes poverty and leads to humiliation.