Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Mother Teresa

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

James, William

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

Pitt, William

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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

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Moore, George

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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

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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

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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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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

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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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

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

Todd, Mike

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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.