The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Our mastery over the forces of nature has led to a rapid growth of population, and a vast accumulation of wealth; but these have brought with them such an amount of poverty and crime.
