George Bernard Shaw Poverty Quotations

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.