Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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.
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.
Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
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