Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or history:
“As the fields fear drought in autumn, so people fear poverty in old age.”
—Chinese proverb.
“History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)