The Poor Quotes

We often hear a lot about subsidies, because it's often the powerful talking about the poor; the poor don't have enough voice to question the privileges.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

Remember that a good example is the best sermon.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.

an imitator is always a poor example.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.

I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.

Were it not for love, Poor life would be a ship not worth launching.

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

No one has ever become poor from giving.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.

If a poor family falls on hard times in the woods, and no one is around to care, did it really happen?

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

Go to the poor there you will find God.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves