Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Pitt, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Harrington, Bob

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Marquand, John

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Baldwin, James

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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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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Seneca

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

Sue, Eugene

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Bible

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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

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Herold, Don

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

Bible

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

Farquhar, George

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

Bible

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

Bible