Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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 and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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.

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

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

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

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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.

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

Seneca

10.

I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

11.

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

Gardner, John W.

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Proverb

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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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Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Sue, Eugene

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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Marquand, John

25.

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

Mother Teresa

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Bible

31.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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.

36.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Phaedrus

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

Landon, Melville D.