I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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.
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
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