"Kyllä köyhyys hyvä raittiusseura on. (Kiikka, Tavastia) (KRA)"

"Köyhyys käskee elään hiljasest. (Loppi, Tavastia) (KRA)"

"Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, pove…"

"Even before Covid-19, we squandered a decade in the fight against poverty, with misplaced triumphalism blocking the v…"

"The international community . . . allows nearly 3 billion people—almost half of all humanity—to subsist on $2 or less…"

"One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should b…"

"But let us realize what sort of rich people. Here comes heaven knows who across our path, wrapped in rags, and he has…"

"Give then to the poor; I beg, I advise, I charge, I command you."

"In truth, poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ri…"

"The destitute is the Messenger of God. Whoever denies him denies God and whoever gives him gives God."