Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- O'Rourke, P. J.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Smith, Sydney

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

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

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

Seneca

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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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

17.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

Marquand, John

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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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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

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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 an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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

28.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

34.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Seneca

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

41.

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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.