Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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.

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

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

Marquand, John

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Proverb, English

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

Bible

11.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

12.

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.

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

Farquhar, George

15.

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

Billings, Josh

16.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

17.

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

18.

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

Pitt, William

19.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

20.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

25.

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

Marx, Groucho

28.

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

Moore, George

29.

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

30.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Sue, Eugene

34.

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

Steinem, Gloria

35.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Pitt, William

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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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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.

40.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

42.

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

Seneca

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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

46.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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