John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Income, Poverty, Problem

• There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Poverty, Common, Poor

• Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Poverty, United States, Annoying

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Poverty, Emphasis, Standards

  Source: www.progressive.org

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