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.

- Bible

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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 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

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

Bible

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as Soho poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

12.

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

Bible

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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 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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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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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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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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Marx, Groucho

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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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 forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Phaedrus

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

Pitt, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Todd, Mike