"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

"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse." - Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

"If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon

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

"Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult." - Samuel Johnson

"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics." - David Lloyd George

"Poverty is the mother of crime." - Marcus Aurelius

"Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius." - Albert Pike