Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Feiffer, Jules

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

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

France, Anatole

10.

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

Bible

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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, English

19.

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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Harrington, Bob

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

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

Steinem, Gloria

28.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Baldwin, James

33.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Farquhar, George

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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

39.

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

Proverb

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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

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

Seneca

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)