Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Proverb

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

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

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

10.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Baldwin, James

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pitt, William

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Bible

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marquand, John

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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Todd, Mike

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

Pitt, William

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

Moore, George