#poverty

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#birth #birth control #control #education #give

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#lack #poverty #self-reliance

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#food #hardship #invasion #lack #life

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#even #genius #imagine #man #poverty

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#another way #control #country #crushed #get

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons ↗

— Toni Morrison

#culture #poverty #art

Poverty is not a circumstance, it's an attitude. ↗

— Rita Gonzalez

#poverty #attitude

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#business #common-defense #disasters #domestic-tranquility #emergencies

What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without calumny; happiness without anxiety. ↗

— Secundus the Silent

#poverty #business

The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor and nobility were nonexistent. Run-down tenements were shadowed by its surrounding buildings, as if the capital itself wanted to conceal its existence. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #oppression #poverty #young-adult