“A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.”
Victor Hugo
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
May Sarton
“Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.”
Kofi Annan
“Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent”
Plato
“The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance”
Daniel Deleon
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
