Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Bible

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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

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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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.

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

Bible

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

Bible

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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.

14.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Pitt, William

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Proverb

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pitt, William

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Proverb, English

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

42.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Herold, Don