Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

- Vaneigem, Raoul

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Pitt, William

Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.

Bible

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

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

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

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Baldwin, James

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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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As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.

Vaneigem, Raoul

12.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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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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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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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 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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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Proverb, English

25.

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 has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

27.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Pitt, William

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Sue, Eugene

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

Bible

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Seneca