As quoted in The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (2004) by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, p. 10
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.”
2008-05-17 http://ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2008/05/17/114573.html
2008
Reported in the East African Standard January 2004, now only available online here http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/000985.html.
“…Poverty and violence are not God made, they are man made. Poverty and peace cannot coexist.”
Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
Speech to the Lautoka Rotary Club (Centenary Dinner), 12 March 2005 http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/printer_4326.shtml.
“The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today.”
"The Elderly Lady", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Context: The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.
“Poverty is what I am writing about, and I had my first contact with poverty in this slum.”
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 1
Context: I am trying to describe the people in our quarter, not for the mere curiosity, but because they are all part of the story. Poverty is what I am writing about, and I had my first contact with poverty in this slum. The slum, with its dirt and its queer lives, was first an object-lesson in poverty, and then the background of my own experiences. It is for that reason that I try to give some idea of what life was like there.
