Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Proverb, Yiddish

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about 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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Marquand, John

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

Todd, Mike

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, English

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

Herold, Don

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Seneca

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

Pitt, William

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Farquhar, George

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

Bible

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

37.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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.

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Empty pockets make empty heads.