The Poor Quotes

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

Stealing it, in a sick kind of sense, was like earning it.

It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world's poor people depend.

Love is a concept invented by poor people.

If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing.

We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.

The worldview of the Left is a battle between rich and poor

I don't understand how poor people think.

Only poor men get hanged.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.

Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

That's is life. You move and change according to things that happen to you and things that you make happen because of poor choices.

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

Bells, the poor man's only music.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.

Poor man. Poor mankind.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.

Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.