(noun) The quality or state of being poor; lack of money
"We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule."
"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
"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."
"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
"One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance."
"By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world."
"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."