"It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor."

-- Seneca

"The contented man is never poor; the discontented never rich."

-- George Eliot

"Poverty is not the absence of goods, but rather the overabundance of desire."

-- Plato

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"And there is far less opportunity for things to get out of hand if one has poverty."

-- Grahame Petchey