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Poverty and the poor

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
- Dunne, Finley Peter
Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

1.
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
Billings, Josh

2.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
France, Anatole

3.
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Baldwin, James

4.
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

5.
I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
Landon, Melville D.

6.
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

7.
Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
Todd, Mike

8.
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.
Bible

9.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Hoover, Herbert Clark

10.
Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.
Lewis, Joe E.

11.
If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Proverb, Yiddish

12.
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Proverb, English

13.
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

14.
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Pitt, William

15.
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

16.
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

17.
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

18.
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
Sartre, Jean-Paul

19.
Empty pockets make empty heads.
Williams, William Carlos

20.
I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.
Marx, Groucho

21.
Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
Proverb

22.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

23.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Brecht, Bertolt

24.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.
He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.
Bible

26.
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

27.
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
Sue, Eugene

28.
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

29.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Bernanos, Georges

30.
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

31.
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
O'Rourke, P. J.

32.
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Herold, Don

33.
Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Limbaugh, Rush

34.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

35.
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

36.
A poor man is all schemes.
Proverb, Spanish

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

39.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

40.
I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.
Marquand, John

41.
Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.
Bible

42.
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Malthus, Thomas Robert

43.
There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
Farquhar, George

44.
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

45.
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.

46.
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.

47.
Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Pitt, William

48.
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Parker, Theodore

49.
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

50.
When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
Proverb


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