Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, Third inaugural address (1941)
“If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.”
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Peter Kropotkin book The Conquest of Bread
Source: The Conquest of Bread (1892), Ch. 4 : Expropriation
“3908. Poverty is not a Shame; but the being asham'd of it, is.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1749) : Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The safest wealth is the poverty of needs.”
Franz Werfel (1890–1945) Austrian-Bohemian author
Der sicherste Reichtum ist die Armut an Bedürfnissen.
Zwischen oben und unten (1946), p. 315
“… a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention…”
Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist
Simon, H. A. (1971) "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World" in: Martin Greenberger, Computers, Communication, and the Public Interest, Baltimore. MD: The Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 40–41.
1960s-1970s
Context: In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
“All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,—poverty.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
1777
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
As reported by Charles Simmons in A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged (North Wrentham, Mass. 1852), p. 103 http://books.google.de/books?id=YOAyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA103&dq=socrates. However, the original source of this statement is unknown.<br><br>Cf. Joseph Addison in The Spectator No. 574 Friday, July 30, 1714, p. 655 http://books.google.de/books?id=K1cdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA655&dq=socrates: In short, content is equivalent to wealth, and luxury to poverty; or, to give the thought a more agreeable turn, "content is natural wealth," says Socrates: to which I shall add, "luxury is artificial poverty.". <br class="br">Attributed
“I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.”
Maggie Nelson (1973) American writer
Source: The Argonauts
“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) Irish dramatist
The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707), Arch, Act i, Sc. 1.
“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey