Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

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

- Billings, Josh

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

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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

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

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

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

Sue, Eugene

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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

France, Anatole

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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 not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Parker, Theodore

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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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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bible

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Harrington, Bob

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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Reston, James

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

Proverb, English

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Marx, Groucho

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Malthus, Thomas Robert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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