Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
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:
Poverty is the natural state for humanity. Wealth starts in the stomach and corrupts it.…
When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.
It is terribly inhumane to block pathways out of poverty because you didn’t need those pathways.
People take pride on the basis of wealth and are looked down on the basis of poverty.
"The future of Nigeria lies in education, health and pulling people out of poverty."
It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
The plans of the diligent surely lead to success, but all who are hasty surely head for poverty.