Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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 and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

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

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

Phaedrus

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Feiffer, Jules

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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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I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mother Teresa

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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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 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

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Marquand, John

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb

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

Todd, Mike

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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

Proverb, English

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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

43.

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

Bible

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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