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

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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

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

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

Farquhar, George

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

Bible

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

Proverb, English

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

Bible

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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

Pitt, William

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Gardner, John W.

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Seneca

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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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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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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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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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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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Herold, Don

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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.

Bible

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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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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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos