Quotes on Poverty

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the capitalistic experiment. Once we came to understand the simpl...truth that earth's resources were limited, in fact soon to run out, the whole capitalistic illusion fell to pieces. Those of us who spoke this truth were denounced as heretics, as enemies of the prevailing economic faith. Like religious Dissenters of an earlier day.

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.

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power...Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.