Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Billings, Josh

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.

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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Bible

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Bible

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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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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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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

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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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

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

Herold, Don

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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

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Baldwin, James

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Farquhar, George

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Whitman, Walt

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

Pitt, William

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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 of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilde, Oscar