2,719 Quotes About Poverty

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was

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

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

There is no virtue in poverty.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.