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These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

— Pope Francis

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Alan Watts

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

— Confucius

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

— Marc Forne Molne

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

— William Pitt

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

— Hill Harper

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

— Foster Friess

✗Opposing Perspectives

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

— Pericles

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

— Washington Irving

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

— Dolly Parton

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

— Eduardo Galeano