Poor Quotes

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poo...

The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is ...

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth...

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Isn't it incredible?, I said.There was nothing incredible about it, she said.I thought it was so bec...

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in h...

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot ...

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because th...

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be see...

Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that...

I never heard enough damnation from your pulpit. Many mornings I had to strain to take hold of what ...

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yiel...

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more us...

As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to the...

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your...

His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed cer...

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor in...

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as mu...

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It ...

Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , f...

I come from a poor family.

There is clearly a feeling abroad that God smiled on our beginnings, and that we should return to th...

The ones who are always on your side, or so they think, are the ones who keep you down. Everything t...

[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the...

The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supportin...

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell ove...

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid rec...

If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they ar...

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relat...

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They...

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanlines...

The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For who...

I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand d...

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This...

So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, wh...

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people ...

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to...

Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality wo...

For the Church, the option for the poor is primarily a theological category rather than a cultural, ...

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it i...

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone wan...

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjec...

Rand had changed a number of laws in Tear, especially those that weighed heavily on the poor, but he...

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principl...

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation

POOR ANGUSOh what do you do, poor Angus,When hunger makes you cry?"I fix myself an omelet, sir,Of fl...

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two ...

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that...

We were made to get along, to be together, andit’s a truth that’s medically attested... Love and dan...

It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that...

They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was n...

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme...

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefi...

The excluded when on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true leper are only the illustration...

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name ...

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reve...

The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the cr...

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re wi...

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly becaus...

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poo...

Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hun...

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poo...

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with posses...

Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man dev...

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on t...

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but ...

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ...

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn...

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are ...

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

The corporate media spends a lot of time covering the lifestyles of the rich and the famous, but not...

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottom...

Cigars are all the rage, dad. You should smoke cigars!" - Calvin"Flatulence could be all the rage, b...

I just love cars I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor....

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the u...

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work...

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or h...

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the ot...

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowe...

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant ...