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It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty

Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979)

Nelson Rockefeller

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.)

Plato

It is better to be poor and live long than rich and die young

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything

Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.)

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back

Thomas Browne, Sr.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

Thomas Sowell (1930-)

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

And makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

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