Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Pitt, William

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

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

Sue, Eugene

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Pitt, William

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Billings, Josh

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

Marx, Groucho

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Seneca

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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

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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Camus, Albert

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Harrington, Bob

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Todd, Mike

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

Baldwin, James

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.