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For the wealthy, money is a tool. For the impoverished, it is the rule. — T.F. Hodge

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor. — Peter Kropotkin

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. — Democritus

Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither
/ One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies. — Kassia

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. — Plato

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off. — Lawrence Durrell

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. — Confucius

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. — Josh Billings

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame. — Confucius

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth. — Cullen Hightower

The oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179) — Mev Puleo

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth. — Jane Austen

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty. — John F. Kennedy

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson

Greed applied is prosperity realized".

~R. Alan Woods [2006] — R. Alan Woods

Although I had never known anything but poverty, I knew that no amount of wealth could diminish my shame." From: Caspian Diary — J.M. Sandler

Great is Youth
equally great is Old Age
great are Day and Night.
Great is Wealth
great is Poverty
great is Expression-great is Silence. — Walt Whitman

Certainly, the wealth of the rich is a consequence of the poverty of the poor. (Lori Altmann, p. 85) — Mev Puleo

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. — Stuart Wilde

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth. — Rush Limbaugh

Poverty will not take you to heaven, just repent of it and get rich, then you'll trek into heaven like a king. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon. — Martin Hopkins

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention ... — Herbert A. Simon

...hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth.
p 290 — Frank Huyler

Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace! — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote) — Kurt Hahn

One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug. — Jeannine Atkins

there is no such thing as poverty; only the absence of wealth (Jacobs, 1969; and see Piachaud, 2002 — Hartley Dean

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich. — Jeffrey D. Sachs

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches. — Daniel M. Gilbert

The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. — Bryan Stevenson

If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot, — Michael Medved

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries! — Alice Walker

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man. — Leo Tolstoy

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice. — Bryan Stevenson

Wealth is no mark of God's favor. Poverty is no mark of God's displeasure. — J.C. Ryle

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth. — Faina Ranevskaya

In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments. — Anton Chekhov

Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself. — Robert Kiyosaki

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth. — Hesiod

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

My dream is for Malawi to be poverty-free, and I intend to eradicate poverty through economic growth and wealth creation. — Joyce Banda

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel ... its poverty by how little. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The noblest people are those despising wealth , learning , pleasure and life ; esteeming above them poverty , ignorance , hardship and death . — Diogenes

Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a
strange land. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth. — Andrew Young

There is more freedom to be gained from practicing poverty than chasing wealth. Suffer a little regularly and you often cease to suffer. — Timothy Ferriss

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all. — Criss Jami

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results. — David George

Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman — Groucho Marx

Silently, sadly, the earth covered life coinage is read both ways; so much vs. so little and ... so little vs. ... so much! — Wes Adamson

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. — Jean Cocteau

Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be. — Saji Ijiyemi

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail. — Thales

A man is rich not only by what he has, but also, and above all, by what he doesn't. — Neel Burton

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion. — Radhanath Swami

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it. — Seneca The Younger

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. — Kin Hubbard

We have the resources to allow everybody to live with dignity,; we have the technology to do it; what we don't have is yet another excuse! — Adriano Bulla

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. — Seneca The Younger

My Poverty doesn't help anyone, but my wealth helps a lot of people. — Dolf De Roos

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth. — Petrus Borel

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul. — Pamela Moore

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth. — Antoine Rivarol

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. — Henry David Thoreau

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time. — Gary Shteyngart

And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth. — Mark Twain

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth. — John Lyly

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable — Thabo Mbeki

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong. — Ernest Van Den Haag

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty. — Christopher Marlowe

Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all ... not by force, but by grace. — Vivian Amis

In poverty a man is alone. But with prosperity, He has many friends. — Lailah Gifty Akita

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth! — Ambrose Bierce

Heal the past and you'll heal the present." Kharis Macey — Kharis Macey

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty. — Henry Hazlitt

Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey. — Mason Cooley

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. — Napoleon Hill

Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food. — T.K. Naliaka

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty. — Samuel Johnson

The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live — Agona Apell

-To Javed-
My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth;
Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity. — Muhammad Iqbal

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. — Leo Rosten

Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose. — Eric Haney

Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland. — David Servant

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future. — Tavis Smiley

I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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. — M.R.C. Kasasian

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. — Jeffrey D. Sachs

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. — Yiddish Proverb

There's no logical connection between being smart and having money. — Christopher Langan

Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

So the convict establishment, born of poverty and hatred, gave birth to wealth and hope. — Keith Sinclair