Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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 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

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

Bible

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

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

Pitt, William

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

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

Farquhar, George

10.

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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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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Yiddish

16.

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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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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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

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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

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

Mother Teresa

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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

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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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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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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Pitt, William

34.

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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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 has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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

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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

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

Bible

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

Herold, Don

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Todd, Mike

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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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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.

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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Mccarthy, Mary