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Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Marquand, John

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Bible

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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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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

Ching-An

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

24.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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 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

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

France, Anatole

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Sue, Eugene

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pitt, William

37.

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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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

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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

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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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 no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Smith, Sydney

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

46.

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 is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Todd, Mike

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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

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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