1. Poverty

3. ~Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes
Society comprises two classes:  those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. 
~Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes

5. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish
Mother Teresa

7. Population of Community of Residence Family Size 500,000 +
November 29, 2002
The LICOs are published by Statistics Canada. Persons and families living below these income levels are considered to be living in "straitened circumstances." There are 35 different LICOs, varying according to family size and size of community. The LICOs are more popularly known as Canada's poverty lines.
Population of Community of Residence
Family Size
500,000 +
100, ,999
30,000-99,999
Less than 30,000*
Rural 1
$18,841
$16,160
$16,048
$14,933
$13,021 2
$23,551
$20,200
$20,060
$18,666
$16,275 3
$29,290
$25,123
$24,948
$23,214
$20,242 4
$35,455
$30,411
$30,200
$28,101
$24,502 5
$39,633
$33,995
$33,758
$31,412
$27,390 6
$43,811
$37,579
$37,317
$34,722
$30,278
7 +
$47,988
$41,163
$40,875
$38,033
$33,166

9. Remember the poor – it costs nothing
Mark Twain

11. It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty
Martin Luther King Jr.

13. Real poverty is lack of books
Sinonie Gabrielle

15. Women do two thirds of the world's work
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor
Barber B. Conable

18. Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
~Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti

21. The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. 
~William James

23. Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi

25. The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved
Mother Teresa

28. The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other.  It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.  Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash.  The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. 
~John Berger