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:
I am very interested in Lethwei since my childhood and know it will help us to escape from poverty.
Sattar (my son) wanted a free Iran, eliminating poverty, and happiness of people.
In this country, to get ahead in life, to beat poverty, you need education
The present status is that poverty is fast-becoming the standard of life.
To patchwork learn'd quotations are allied,
Both strive to make our poverty our pride.
To end the humiliation was a start, but to end poverty is a bigger task.
Poverty exists because of an unjust system that deprives people of equal opportunities.
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.