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

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Baldwin, James

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

Billings, Josh

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.

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

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

Wilde, Oscar

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Seneca

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

Herold, Don

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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Berger, John

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pitt, William

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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

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Bible

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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Pitt, William

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

Mother Teresa

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

Todd, Mike

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Marquand, John

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