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 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

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herold, Don

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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'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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Pitt, William

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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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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.

Proverb

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, English

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Smith, Sydney

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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Harrington, Bob

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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?