Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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 and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

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

Moore, George

When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.

Proverb

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Marquand, John

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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

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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.

France, Anatole

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Baldwin, James

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)