Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Farquhar, George

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

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

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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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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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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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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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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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Marquand, John

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Marx, Groucho

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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.

Confucius

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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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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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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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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Phaedrus

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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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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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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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