Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, English

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

10.

When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.

Proverb

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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 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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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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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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 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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Phaedrus

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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.

29.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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

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

Marquand, John

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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

38.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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