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Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Baldwin, James

10.

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

Smith, Sydney

11.

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

Bible

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

14.

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

Pitt, William

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Bible

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

25.

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

Seneca

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Mother Teresa

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Landon, Melville D.

34.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

35.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

36.

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

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Harrington, Bob

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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

40.

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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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Sue, Eugene

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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 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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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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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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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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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