H. L. Mencken Quotes

Poverty wastes people; it wastes opportunity.

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

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

A shining city is perhaps all the President [Ronald Reagan] sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the shining city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, and more people who need help and can't find it.

Poverty demoralizes.

Poverty Corrodes Freedom

Austerity is a disaster for everyone but the rich…. It’s crap, but it’s dangerous crap..

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

Complaint is poverty.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

Poverty is unnecessary.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

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

I know what poverty is.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.