Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Baldwin, James

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Henry IV

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

Todd, Mike

Cobbett, William

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, English

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Pitt, William

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Farquhar, George

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

Pitt, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Sue, Eugene

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Seneca

41.

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

Bible

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Billings, Josh

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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