“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.”

“My Poverty doesn't help anyone, but my wealth helps a lot of people.”

“Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.”

“The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)”

“It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life?Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?”

“...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...”