The Poor Quotes

Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

In the long run, it costs more to provide poor rather than good service.

Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.

You're just too poor to get rich.

We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.

When we work all over the planet, it's mostly poor and black and brown and young people, because that's mostly what the world [environmentalism] is.

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

I think Americans are so poor it's pitiful, because you don't understand the natural world at all.

Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

Money has not changed me. I am living proof. I'm worse than I was, all right, when I was poor. I don't care about money. Money - you can't buy me. And I don't care about it.

Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.

how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.

Christians and Muslims can still get along. On issues such as global warming and helping the poor.

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.

My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British.

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

Largely, as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.