It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle..

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity..

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all..

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life..

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden..

A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it besto….

Socialism and communism are set up so that a select few elite get most of everything and the rest of society is equally miserable in poverty and oppr….

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade..

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve..

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth..

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence..

Poverty is not the root cause of crime..

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not..

Patches are a nun's jewels..

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it..

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity..

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty..

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice..

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resen….

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