Michel Faber Quotes

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

Poverty wastes people; it wastes opportunity.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

Poverty is slavery.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment is terror.

As I have traveled the state, I have seen firsthand that there are Arizonans who are hurting.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

When our economy is not growing, those least able to look after themselves are the first thrown overboard ...