Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Herold, Don

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

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

Bible

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

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

Pitt, William

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bible

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

Billings, Josh

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Phaedrus

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Todd, Mike

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma