#poverty

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ↗

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#contains #detachment #dreams #finds #him

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides. ↗

— James Reston

#hides #poverty #wealth

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it. ↗

— John Burns

#big #big problem #cope #effort #impossible

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#absurdity #much #poverty

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#being #country #environments #great #great men

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#monarchies #poverty #republics #ruins

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ↗

— Hannah More

#luxury #more #perilous #poverty #quicksand

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#had #i #know #name #poverty

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. ↗