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Poverty and the poor

Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.
- Garfield, James A.
Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

1.
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
Billings, Josh

2.
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Fuller, Thomas

3.
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
Kerr, Jean

4.
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

5.
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
Moore, George

6.
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

7.
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

8.
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

9.
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

10.
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
O'Rourke, P. J.

11.
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Baldwin, James

12.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Bernanos, Georges

13.
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

14.
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
Sue, Eugene

15.
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
Phaedrus

16.
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

17.
The poor will always be with you. [John 12: 8]
Bible

18.
I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.
Worlock, Archbishop Derek

19.
Empty pockets make empty heads.
Williams, William Carlos

20.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

21.
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

22.
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.

23.
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

24.
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

25.
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

26.
There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
Farquhar, George

27.
He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.
Bible

28.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Seneca

29.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Brecht, Bertolt

30.
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

31.
When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
Proverb

32.
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
Michelet, Jules

33.
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.

34.
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

35.
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

36.
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

37.
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Proverb, English

38.
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

39.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.
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

41.
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
Hegel, Georg

42.
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
Sartre, Jean-Paul

43.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Herold, Don

46.
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
Steinem, Gloria

47.
A poor man is all schemes.
Proverb, Spanish

48.
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Malthus, Thomas Robert

49.
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.

50.
Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Pitt, William


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