Poverty

Poverty

Poverty is the deprivation of food, shelter, money and clothing that occurs when people cannot satisfy their basic needs. Poverty can be understood simply as a lack of money, or more broadly in terms of barriers to everyday life.

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Famous quotes containing the word poverty:

    “The hour when you say, “What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!””
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “As the fields fear drought in autumn, so people fear poverty in old age.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)