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.
Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Proverb, English
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
Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
Proverb, Hebrew
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
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
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
A poor man is all schemes.
Proverb, Spanish
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
I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.
Worlock, Archbishop Derek
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Smith, Sydney
Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Limbaugh, Rush
Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.
Bible
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
Michelet, Jules
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
France, Anatole
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Gandhi, Mahatma
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
Sartre, Jean-Paul
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Gardner, John W.
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Vaneigem, Raoul
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
If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Proverb, Yiddish
The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.
Harrington, Bob
Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Pitt, William
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 with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Bernanos, Georges
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
Phaedrus
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
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
Sue, Eugene
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.
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.
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Wilde, Oscar
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
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
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Baldwin, James
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.
You lose your manners when you're poor.
Hellman, Lillian
When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
Proverb
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
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
I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.
Marquand, John
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Brecht, Bertolt
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
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
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
I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.
Marx, Groucho
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
Billings, Josh
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.
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Herold, Don
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
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
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
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