Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- O'Rourke, P. J.

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pitt, William

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

France, Anatole

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

Marquand, John

10.

The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

Ching-An

11.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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A poor man is all schemes.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Gardner, John W.

22.

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

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

Phaedrus

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

28.

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

Worlock, Archbishop Derek

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Sue, Eugene

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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

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

Farquhar, George

42.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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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

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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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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Baldwin, James