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Poverty and the poor

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.
Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

1.
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

2.
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.

3.
The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.
Harrington, Bob

4.
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.

5.
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

6.
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.
Johnson, Samuel

7.
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.

8.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

9.
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Bernanos, Georges

10.
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
Phaedrus

11.
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
O'Rourke, P. J.

12.
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

13.
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.
Bible

14.
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
Shaw, George Bernard

15.
A poor man is all schemes.
Proverb, Spanish

16.
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

17.
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
Moore, George

18.
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Baldwin, James

19.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Hoover, Herbert Clark

20.
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

21.
Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
Todd, Mike

22.
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
Sue, Eugene

23.
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

24.
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Parker, Theodore

26.
Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
Proverb, Hebrew

27.
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

28.
I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.
Worlock, Archbishop Derek

29.
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

30.
Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
Reston, James

31.
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
Sartre, Jean-Paul

32.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Gardner, John W.

33.
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

34.
He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.
Bible

35.
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Wilde, Oscar

36.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
France, Anatole

37.
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
Michelet, Jules

38.
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Vaneigem, Raoul

39.
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

40.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Smith, Sydney

41.
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Proverb, English

42.
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

43.
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

44.
Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
Billings, Josh

45.
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.

46.
Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.
Lewis, Joe E.

47.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Brecht, Bertolt

48.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

49.
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Billings, Josh

50.
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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