Poverty

Poverty

Poverty is the deprivation of food, shelter, money and clothing that occurs when people cannot satisfy their basic needs. Poverty can be understood simply as a lack of money, or more broadly in terms of barriers to everyday life.

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Famous quotes containing the word poverty:

    “In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilisation.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Better to go from poverty to riches than from riches to poverty.”
    —Chinese proverb.