Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poverty is more than a material experience; it's a psychological state as well, one that is infused with anxiety. And decision-making is very complex because every decision you make has an impact on your future and survival.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.