Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Phaedrus

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

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

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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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Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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'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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Phaedrus

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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 is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mother Teresa

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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas