Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

- Dickens, Charles

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Smith, Sydney

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

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

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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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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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Farquhar, George

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Sue, Eugene

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Dickens, Charles

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

Pitt, William

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

Seneca

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

Pitt, William

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I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation

Todd, Mike

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Todd, Mike

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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 would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

Moore, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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.