Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Pitt, William

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

Mother Teresa

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Steinem, Gloria

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

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

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

Proverb

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.

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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Phaedrus

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Herold, Don

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

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

Seneca

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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

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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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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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible