Quotes About Destitution

A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

Troppo miseria

More important still was the introduction of state-sponsored welfare schemes. The industrial democracies, alarmed by socialist strides in organizing labor and gaining seats in parliamentary elections, instituted social legislation in the form of unemployment and health insurance and other benefits that kept the working class from sinking into destitution.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

How steadily my predicament had gotten worse! By now I was so utterly denuded of objects that I didn't even have a comb left, or a book to read when I felt hopeless.

monday: empty storehouses a rat became the unit of currency

at rude variance with the poverty of its surroundings.

The despair brought by unemployment comes not only from the threat of destitution, but from the sudden view of a vast nothingness ahead. The unemployed are more likely to follow the peddlers of hope than the handers-out of relief.

Si tu vois ni ordures ni poubelles, c'est très riche.Si tu vois des poubelles e pas d'ordures,c'est riche.Si tu vois des ordures à côté des poubelles,c'est ni riche,ni pauvre,c'est touristique.Si tu vois les ordures sans les poubelles,c'est pauvre. Et si les gens habitent dans les ordures c'est très très pauvre.Ici c'est riche!...Mais oui,c'est la Suisse!

In Conisborough there's no Hoxton Square to bring a bit of light relief. It's just mile after mile of broken windows and the bloody Earth Centre.

Oh no, Mr. Kaufman. I don't have any more money.

the Bamboroughs were not-enough-to-eat poor.

You seem to be bankrupt - morally as well as financially

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg

It's so dreadful to be poor!

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

It is no use, said the old man, there is no wine. What, no wine? said Dantes, turning pale, and looking alternately at the hollow cheeks of the old man and the empty cupboards.

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Privatio presupponit habitum Yokluk varl??? ?art ko?ar.