Premchand Quotes on Poverty

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Authentic quotations from Premchand's works concerning poverty, debt, hunger, exploitation, peasants, labor, inequality, social exclusion, and economic injustice

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It was a strange life. Apart from two or four earthen vessels, there was no property in the house. Covering their nakedness with torn rags, they somehow lived on.

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The glory of fate! We do the laboring, while others enjoy the fruits.

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Why don't you give up farming? Work yourself to death, give away the produce as arrears, and be done with it. We were apparently born only to pay debts.

Poverty
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Let us work for wages. At least we will get one peaceful meal. No one will be able to lord it over us.

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The three rupees had been saved, one penny at a time, from his wages for a blanket. Today they were being taken away.

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Step by step, his head was being crushed under the weight of his poverty.

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The farmers work like oxen, but the benefit of their labor goes elsewhere.

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Who understands the pain of the poor? Even if we die, no one comes to our door; giving us a shoulder is another matter altogether.

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This well supplies water to the whole village; no one is forbidden—only these unfortunate people cannot draw from it.

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Why are we considered low and they high? Is it because they wear the sacred thread?

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They make us work, but when it comes to paying wages, they act as though their lives depend on avoiding payment.

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There is no greater bad custom than this: the person who could not get even a rag to cover the body in life must have a new shroud in death.