Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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

Phaedrus

He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.

Bible

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

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

Taylor Jeremy

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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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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 a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

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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

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When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Harrington, Bob

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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Todd, Mike

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Smith, Sydney

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Pitt, William

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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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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.

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

Herold, Don

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Sue, Eugene

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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Berger, John

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

Seneca

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There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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.