Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

- Bagehot, Walter

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Feiffer, Jules

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

Sue, Eugene

When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.

Camara, Dom H.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Reagan, Ronald

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Eliot, George

The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

Ching-An

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

10.

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness: this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joys and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Mccarthy, Mary

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Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

George, David Lloyd

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Bagehot, Walter

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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Shaw, George Bernard

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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

James, William

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

France, Anatole

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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Mother Teresa

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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi, St.

24.

At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.

Wall, Derek

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I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that.And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

31.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

33.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

Marquand, John

34.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

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Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.

Proverb

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

41.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Farquhar, George

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Seneca

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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Baldwin, James

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Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Pitt, William

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The poor will always be with you. [John 12: 8]

Bible

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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Harrington, Michael

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Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

Proverb, English