Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Harrington, Bob

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

10.

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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

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

Mother Teresa

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

Pitt, William

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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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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.

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

Bible

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Marquand, John

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Baldwin, James

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

Bible

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

Todd, Mike

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

Moore, George

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh