#poverty

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. ↗

— Nicholas Johnson

#decades #effort #families #help #help people

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#destroys #difficult #enemy #extremely #great

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

#crime #like #poverty #punishment #you

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder. ↗

— Russell Moore

#evangelism #poverty #family

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#bell #difficult #dinner #make #out

Poverty affects people of all races. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#people #poverty #races

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#closely #convincing #ever #fascinating #i

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#had #horror #i #poverty

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous. ↗

— George Gissing

#curses #generous #leaves #poverty #right

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

#look #marry #poverty