The Poor Quotes

The poor looking shepherd of the dessert is in substance very rich with all the magical treasures of the desert.

You'll never have complete control, Caine. This world is changing all the time. Animals. People. Who knows what's next? We didn't' make this world, we're just the poor fools who are living in it.

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids.

No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.

Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

I think that before people were speaking much about the poor, but now more and more people are speaking to the poor. That is the great difference.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

Believe in poverty and you will be poor. Believe in wealth and you will be rich. Believe in love and you will have love. Believe in health and you will be healthy.

Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no way to meet girls.

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.

The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.

Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering.

If we take the poor away from the Gospel, we won't be able to understand the whole message of Jesus Christ.

Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

So long as I can laugh, never will I be poor.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.