Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
Poverty makes you work really hard.
When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.
Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!
Poverty makes slaves of free men.
No American should have to choose between heating and eating.
Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
Poverty Corrodes Freedom
It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
I know what poverty is.
I had a friend at college who took being poor very personally. He started showering in the sports centre next door and said he wasn't going to pay for the hot water in our flat any more because he didn't use it. He made me and my other friend pay the bills on our own.
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
We had plenty of clothes and no money.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
