Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

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Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Farquhar, George

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Seneca

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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

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Marquand, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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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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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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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

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Phaedrus

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

Todd, Mike

31.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Proverb, English

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

Mother Teresa

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Todd, Mike

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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