Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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.

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Landon, Melville D.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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

11.

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Herold, Don

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

17.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Marquand, John

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Phaedrus

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Todd, Mike

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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

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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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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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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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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb, English

41.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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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

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De