Poorest Quotes

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.

Want and effective demand are not the same thing. If they were, the poorest nations would be the ones to display the most vigorous demand.

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!

No other group has internalized its self-hatred as much as blacks have. It would be difficult to find other groups who behave similarly in that their most esteemed members berate its poorest members.

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.

Society and Government should together give priority to the poorest of poor and make efforts to provide affordable health services.

My development parameter is very simple. It is about how the poorest of the poor can benefit from development.

As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration.

Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.

The US reasserted control over Nicaragua in 1990. Since then, the country has experienced a steep decline. It's now the second poorest country in the hemisphere.

I can go on and on. In the Appalachians. I fed the poorest part of this nation for years coming up at Christmas.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.

In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.

In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.

Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

By lifting the weakest, poorest among us, we lift the rest of us as well.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the richest 5 percent of people receive one-third of total global income, as much as the poorest 80 percent.

The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest person is the one who has no vision. Visionlessness is poverty in disguise.

Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.

The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor!

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within