Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Marx, Groucho

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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

10.

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

Bible

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

Bible

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb, English

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

Todd, Mike

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

Pitt, William

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Bible

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

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

Farquhar, George

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Landon, Melville D.

43.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Smith, Sydney

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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

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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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