Quotes about poverty and the poor

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on poverty and the poor
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"The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor."

Moore, George on poverty and the poor   

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

Mother Teresa on poverty and the poor
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"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."

Mother Teresa on poverty and the poor
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"Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up."

Munro, Hector Hugh on poverty and the poor   

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

O'Rourke, P. J. on poverty and the poor   

"As society advances the standard of poverty rises."

Parker, Theodore on poverty and the poor   

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

Phaedrus on poverty and the poor   

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

Pitt, William on poverty and the poor   

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

Pitt, William on poverty and the poor   

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

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"Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness."

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

Proverb, English on poverty and the poor   

"Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth."

Proverb, Greek on poverty and the poor   

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

Proverb, Hebrew on poverty and the poor   

"A poor man is all schemes."

Proverb, Spanish on poverty and the poor   

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

Proverb, Yiddish on poverty and the poor   

"True poverty does not come from God."

Proverb, Yiddish on poverty and the poor   

"The poorest He that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest He."

Raineborough, Thomas on poverty and the poor   

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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 on poverty and the poor   

"Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides."

Reston, James on poverty and the poor   

"The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on poverty and the poor   

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul on poverty and the poor
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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 on poverty and the poor   

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

Seneca on poverty and the poor   

"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich."

Seneca on poverty and the poor   

"O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!"

Shakespeare, William on poverty and the poor   

"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 on poverty and the poor   

"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 on poverty and the poor   

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

Smith, Sydney on poverty and the poor   

"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 on poverty and the poor   

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

Steinem, Gloria on poverty and the poor
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"Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty."

Sue, Eugene on poverty and the poor   

"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 on poverty and the poor   

"Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth."

Thoreau, Henry David on poverty and the poor   

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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 on poverty and the poor   

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

Todd, Mike on poverty and the poor   

"He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth."

Unknown, Source on poverty and the poor   

"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."

Vaneigem, Raoul on poverty and the poor   

"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 on poverty and the poor