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

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

Bible

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

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

Bible

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

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

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

Harrington, Bob

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

Cobbett, William

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

10.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

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

Pitt, William

14.

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

Herold, Don

15.

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.

16.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

17.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

20.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

22.

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

Steinem, Gloria

23.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

24.

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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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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.

27.

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

28.

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

Moore, George

29.

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

30.

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

Marquand, John

31.

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

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.

Proverb

34.

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

Proverb, English

35.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

36.

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

Farquhar, George

37.

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

38.

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

Billings, Josh

39.

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

40.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

41.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

42.

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

43.

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

Mother Teresa

44.

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

Sue, Eugene

45.

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

46.

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

Todd, Mike

47.

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

48.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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