Poverty Quotes (7)

If the misery of our poor is caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Journal of Researches

In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems.
See also:  |  Happiness (24)  |  Health (60)  |  Hell (5)  |  Money (69)  |  Pestilence (3)  |  Problem (59)  |  Work (38)

One of the largest promises of science is, that the sum of human happiness will be increased, ignorance destroyed, and, with ignorance, prejudice and superstition, and that great truth taught to all, that this world and all it contains were meant for our use and service; and that where nature by her own laws has defined the limits of original unfitness, science may by extract so modify those limits as to render wholesome that which by natural wildness was hurtful, and nutritious that which by natural poverty was unnourishing. We do not yet know half that chemistry may do by way of increasing our food.
Anonymous
'Common Cookery'. Household Words (26 Jan 1856), 13, 45. An English weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens.
See also:  |  Chemistry (85)  |  Food (36)  |  Happiness (24)  |  Ignorance (62)  |  Prejudice (10)  |  Promise (2)  |  Science (433)  |  Superstition (21)  |  Truth (232)

Poverty is a virtue greatly exaggerated by physicians no longer forced to practise it.
Anonymous
See also:  |  Money (69)  |  Physician (137)

Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich.
See also:  |  Reform (5)  |  Rich (3)  |  Wealth (6)

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty—not marble floors and foundations.
Martin H. Fischer, Howard Fabing (ed.) and Ray Marr (ed.), Fischerisms (1944).
See also:  |  Education (118)  |  Physician (137)  |  Wealth (6)

The world is a very different one now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
Inaugural address (1961). Robert G. Torricelli and Andrew Carroll, In Our Own words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century (1999), 222.
See also:  |  Atomic Bomb (36)  |  Life (146)  |  Power (17)  |  World (39)

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