There was a smell about the place, which I imagined as the smell of misery and fear, though I supposed it was no more than the niff of ancient squalor and an absence of drains.
Quotes about squalor (11 Quotes)
The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.
We hate our squalor.
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.
The truth of this tragedy is that we have pockets of poverty in the most powerful and affluent nation in the world. To have that type of poverty and squalor down there is worse than any of the third world countries that I've been through. What God has done is exposed us. He exposed a third world country within our country. Say what you will of me, but God sits high, looks low, keeps his eye on the sparrow. He has shown us that we have so much money and so much power to go around the world and solve other peoples' problems but we can't solve our own problems. God has brought that all out tonight.
The model of development we are accustomed to has been fruitful for few and flawed for many. A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and leaves a majority of humankind behind in squalor will soon prove to be a dead-end road for everyone.
The studious class are their own victims they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption --pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.
In creeds never was such levity witness the heathenism in Christianity, the periodic revivals, the Millennium mathematics, the peacock ritualism, the retrogression to Popery, the maundering of Mormons, the squalor of Mesmerism, the deliration of
I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.
It is unacceptable for a country to spend tens of millions on hosting a soccer tournament whilst millions of its people live in squalor.