Richard Corliss

In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.

American Writer

Sharan Burrow

What Qatar chose is a system where a worker is owned by his employer. When your employer forces you to live in squalor, makes you work longest hours in extreme heat, doesn't allow you to change jobs, doesn't pay your wages on time, abuses you physically and psychologically, you have no way out, you can't leave. You are trapped.

Welsh Activist

Jeremy Kyle

When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. Fast forward 65 years and it seems the last New Labour government grew an Unfair State that fuelled - not fought - one of those evils: idleness.

English Journalist

James Buchan

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

British Novelist

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the extremes of human excellence and beauty and, just as crucially, filth and squalor.

American Critic

Diablo Cody

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

John W. Gardner

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.

American Educator

P. J. O'Rourke

Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers.

American Comedian

King Princess

There's just a certain amount of grandeur and total squalor we exist in as songwriters because it's a crazy job for crazy people.

American Musician

Andrei Platonov

Russian Writer

Squalor suggests negative, undesirable conditions often resulting from neglect or poverty.

Negative Connotation

Squalor is commonly associated with the living conditions of the extremely poor.

Poverty Indicator

The word squalor can evoke strong emotions such as pity or disgust, be sensitive when using it.

Emotional Impact

 just living in absolute squalor this woman sadly had saved up enough money to send her daughter back to burma and she drowned the first week that she got back so she was just lighting these incense for her daughter when I met her I asked these refugees they said look at this squalor that they live in I'm like how

Alison Wright: Portraits...

 what you brought, what gift, what light did you keep from extinction? When they came for victims in the night, did you sleep through it or were you roused? What was the cost of staying woke? What, in the year we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege? Did you sup on others' squalor?

Chinaka Hodge: What will...

 Heaven's for criminality crime drug abuse prostitution pollution squalor all those negative things you can imagine on account of these labels authorities use them as justification to demolish the