Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Steinem, Gloria

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

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

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

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

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

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

Bible

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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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 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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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.

Bible

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Mother Teresa

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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 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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Bible

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

Proverb, English

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

Seneca

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

Phaedrus

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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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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

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

Herold, Don

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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

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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]