Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or history:
“The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)