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Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Poverty is unnecessary.

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.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

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.

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.

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

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.