Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

- Fuller, Thomas

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Farquhar, George

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

Marquand, John

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

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Todd, Mike

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.

10.

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

France, Anatole

11.

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

Bible

20.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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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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

27.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Phaedrus

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Herold, Don

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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