Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Liberals fought poverty and poverty won.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
As quoted in The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (2004) by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, p. 10
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
Benjamin Mkapa (1938) Tanzanian politician and former president
2008-05-17 http://ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2008/05/17/114573.html <br class="br">2008
Peter Akinola (1944) Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria
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.”
Ela Bhatt (1933) founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA)
Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
Joni Madraiwiwi (1957–2016) Fijian politician
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.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"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.”
George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London
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.
“Poverty is spiritual halitosis.”
George Orwell book Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 5
“Poverty is the stepmother of genius.”
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
