§ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. -Aristotle (384 - 322 BC).
§ The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. -Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910).
§ Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. –Reginald.
§ Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it. -Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
§ Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people. Don Herold.
- He who knows how to be poor knows everything. Michelet, Jules French writer (1798-1874).
- Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. Mother Teresa.
- To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. - Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 – 1784.
- Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. - Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908 – 1973.