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

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Landon, Melville 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

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Phaedrus

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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

Billings, Josh

10.

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

11.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Bible

15.

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

16.

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

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

18.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

19.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

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

Marx, Groucho

21.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

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

Todd, Mike

25.

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

26.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

27.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

29.

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

Steinem, Gloria

30.

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

Pitt, William

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

Pitt, William

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

Bible

34.

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.

35.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

36.

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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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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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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Proverb

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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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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