#poverty

I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the daytime, you would give me a sou! ↗

— Victor Hugo

#money #poverty #love

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty! ↗

— Major Thomas

#drive #folly #grace #greed #joy

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#poverty #men

Un miros de sărac, un miros de violență, de necesitatea de a parveni. ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

#necessity #poverty #smell #violence #inspirational

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#constant #continual #developing #famine #fear

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. ↗

— Alden Nowlan

#american #american writers #background #been #come

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family

It wasn't poverty that drove me on. ↗

— Aleksandr Kuprin

#me #poverty

The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three. ↗

— George Orwell

#poverty #stealing #food