Poverty Quotes

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...

Then he said the funny thing was the old man himself had left home when he was a kid, after a fight ...

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants ther...

There are so many people in the world with so little. Who cares why you decide to help?

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the...

I need the money, people are very coy about money, and the ladies arent just coy, they are sci fi ab...

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

Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sag...

The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.

One of the biggest misconceptions remains that Neil Gaiman spent his youth lurching from bedsit to l...

The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, ...

Me, and thousands of others in this country like me, are half-baked, because we were never allowed t...

There is no end in India, Mr. Jiabao,as Mr. Ashok so correctly used to say. You'll have to keep payi...

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only prais...

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied wi...

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.

I see a role for specialized knowledge, but I think that it's important for there to be an arena whe...

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We mu...

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequ...

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear n...

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal sh...

But apparently you don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pione...

In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combina...

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens wh...

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

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

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or...