Motivational Quotes

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

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

Bible

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

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

Bible

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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

10.

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

Marquand, John

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

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

15.

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

Todd, Mike

16.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Reagan, Ronald

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Harrington, Bob

22.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

23.

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

Phaedrus

24.

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

25.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

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

Billings, Josh

28.

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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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

30.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

32.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

33.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Camus, Albert

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Seneca

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

Steinem, Gloria

48.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

49.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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