Quotes with poverty-stricken

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  • Oscar Wilde In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertrand Piccard In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Kin Hubbard It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Bill Pascrell It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bono It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Plutarch Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Abigail Van Buren Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Groucho Marx Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Hannah More Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Marty Feldman Money can't buy poverty.
    Marty Feldman
    British actor and comedian (1934 - 1982)
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  • Woody Allen Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Antonio Porchia My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • 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
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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