Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or rates:
“He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)