Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Farquhar, George

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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 is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Gardner, John W.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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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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.

11.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Billings, Josh

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb

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

Herold, Don

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

21.

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 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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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 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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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

Pitt, William

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

Baldwin, James

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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.

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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 the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sue, Eugene

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb, English