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

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

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.

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

Marquand, John

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

Todd, Mike

Mccarthy, Mary

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Seneca

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Phaedrus

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

Moore, George

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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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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Harrington, Bob

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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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No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

Taylor Jeremy

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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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