Poverty Quotes

Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, an' a' that; The coward slave-we pass him by, We...

A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. T...

No baggage - there was the secret of existence.

Look at that crowd', he said disgustedly. 'They think it's a circus.''And not a single coin are they...

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid ...

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandal...

And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and sol...

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths e...

There is nothing more sickening than talking about poverty over a fancy dinner.

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about...

I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled li...

For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in...

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

A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places on...

Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own sa...

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public chariti...

And the child—your child—was born there in the midst of misery. It was a deadly place: strange, ever...

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Valuables. That was a hot one, Richards thought, unbuttoning his shirt. He had an empty wallet with ...

People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete...

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

Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting again...

Life’s mystery continued to trouble meA question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or do...

Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the...

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and incon...

O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

The poor who have neither property, friends, nor strength to labor are boarded in the houses of good...

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it o...

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had...

Despite widespread misconceptions in the United States today that the institution of slavery was bas...

External explanations of black-white differences — discrimination or poverty, for example—seem to ma...

What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he...

The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much a...

It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to ...

Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true ope...

Seven thousand of them were indicted and arraigned, and then they entered the maw of the criminal ju...

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who ea...

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you...

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world bec...

The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like s...

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billio...

My inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did "American Pie" or "Vincent". Lor...

For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as b...

I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the facti...

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most falle...

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my sh...

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet...

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...

In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosio...

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

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, ask...

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environme...

Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the...

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not ...

What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in s...

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity an...

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. I have nothin...

Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, i...

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do...

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to ...

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.

if admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constan...

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

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

Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. N...

At the street corner, a one-storey house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, se...

"Leisure without study is death; it is a tomb for the living man."

The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot aff...

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulatin...

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to 'LIllustration. Something desp...

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Hunger is insolent and will be fed.

The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mex...