#pov

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. ↗

— Jean Paul

#bearing #heavier #load #loved #loved ones

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions. ↗

— James Payn

#case #evil #folks #great #hope

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely. ↗

— James Payn

#developed #even #feel #get #good

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race. ↗

— James Payn

#because #benefit #cherished #example #human

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#conditions #continuing #deeper #distress #important

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#arab #better #chickens #corruption #down

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#change #democratic #desire #does #economies

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#middle #middle east #more #politics #poverty

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#escape #families #jews #left #poverty

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name