Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Baldwin, James

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

Berger, John

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

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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

Pitt, William

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

Sue, Eugene

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

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

Pitt, William

11.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Henry IV

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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

O'Rourke, P. J.

13.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Kerr, Jean

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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

Harrington, Bob

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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

17.

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

18.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Steinem, Gloria

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb

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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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

24.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

Garfield, James A.

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Phaedrus

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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Whitman, Walt

40.

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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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Gardner, John W.

42.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Herold, Don

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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.

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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Camus, Albert

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar