Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Landon, Melville D.

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Herold, Don

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Hegel, Georg

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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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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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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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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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Mother Teresa

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

Billings, Josh

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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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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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 makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.