Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Moore, George

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh

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

Marquand, John

12.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Pitt, William

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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 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

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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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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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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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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Mother Teresa

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Kerr, Jean

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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