Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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 and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

France, Anatole

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Eliot, George

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Seneca

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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 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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Marquand, John

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

Baldwin, James

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Harrington, Bob

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Phaedrus

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

Herold, Don

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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.