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

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

Pitt, William

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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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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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh

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

Phaedrus

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb, English

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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.

Bible

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

Gardner, John W.

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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

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

Herold, Don

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

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