Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Todd, Mike

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Wilde, Oscar

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 is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

Mccarthy, Mary

10.

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

Herold, Don

12.

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

Bible

17.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

18.

You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

20.

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.

21.

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

Marquand, John

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

23.

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

24.

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

Seneca

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

Bernanos, Georges

27.

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

O'Rourke, P. J.

28.

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

Pitt, William

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The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Billings, Josh

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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Billings, Josh

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

Pitt, William

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Bible

44.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

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

Mother Teresa

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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