Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

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

Todd, Mike

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Marquand, John

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

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

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Farquhar, George

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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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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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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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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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Pitt, William

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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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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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

Camus, Albert