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:

    “We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.”
    —Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

    “It was not important that they survive.
    What mattered was that they should bear
    Some lineament or character,
    Some affluence, if only half-perceived,
    In the poverty of their words,
    Of the planet of which they were part.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)