Squalor Quotes
Squalor Quote of the day
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.
The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.
No one is demonizing or even saying anything as intemperate as Donald Trump has said about blacks living in squalor conditions.
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.
There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes.
