How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.

Be patient, you are in good company. Our Lord Himself, our Lady, the apostles, and countless saints, both men and women, have been poor.

We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake up and leave stupidity behind.

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.

Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

Kuru fasulyeleri ateşe koydum. Onları yıkarken, "Bugün zengin insanlar gibiyim," dedim. "Fasulye hazırlıyorum.

P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.