Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Affluence creates poverty.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.