Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or history:
“It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)