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Poverty and the poor

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 and the poor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

1.
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Proverb, English

2.
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
Vaneigem, Raoul

3.
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
Moore, George

4.
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

5.
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

6.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Gandhi, Mahatma

7.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

8.
Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Marx, Groucho

9.
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

10.
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

11.
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.
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.

13.
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Seneca

15.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa

16.
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Pitt, William

17.
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

18.
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

19.
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
Steinem, Gloria

20.
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

21.
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

22.
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

23.
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

24.
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

25.
Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
Sue, Eugene

26.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
France, Anatole

27.
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Fuller, Thomas

28.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Gardner, John W.

30.
Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
Proverb, Hebrew

31.
There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
Farquhar, George

32.
The poor will always be with you. [John 12: 8]
Bible

33.
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

34.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Hoover, Herbert Clark

35.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
Marden, Orison Swett

36.
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

37.
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Herold, Don

39.
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.

40.
Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
Billings, Josh

41.
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Wilde, Oscar

42.
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

43.
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

44.
I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.
Worlock, Archbishop Derek

45.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Smith, Sydney

46.
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

47.
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Malthus, Thomas Robert

48.
If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
Proverb, Yiddish

49.
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

50.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Brecht, Bertolt


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