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.

- Bible

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bible

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

Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Phaedrus

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

Pitt, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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

Pitt, William

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

Mother Teresa

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

Marquand, John

30.

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

Seneca

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

Moore, George

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

Seneca

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

43.

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.

44.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De