Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

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Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

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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

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

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

Herold, Don

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Proverb, English

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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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Pitt, William

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Harrington, Bob

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Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

Hegel, Georg

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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

Seneca

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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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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Bernanos, Georges

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

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