Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Worlock, Archbishop Derek

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

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

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

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bible

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Seneca

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

Gardner, John W.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Sue, Eugene

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Farquhar, George

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Marquand, John

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

Mother Teresa

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

Herold, Don

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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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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