Quotes about Poverty
Morals are a luxury of the rich.
— George Bernard Shaw
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
— George Eliot
for the human mind in that grassy corner had not the proverbial tendency to admire the unknown, holding rather that it was likely to be against the poor man, and that suspicion was the only wise attitude with regard to it.
— George Eliot
He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
— Samuel Johnson
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
— Samuel Johnson
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury--you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
— Samuel Johnson
Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.
— Samuel Johnson
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
— Samuel Johnson
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
— Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
— Samuel Johnson
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
— Samuel Johnson