The Poor Quotes

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness

If the research agenda reflects "market forces", the problems of the poor are likely to be even more neglected than they already are.

People who lack material wealth, who are poor, won't be very happy. They will be obsessed with meeting their bills at pay day. And people who have an abundance of material goods are often not happy.

No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much.

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ

My people are poor and I am one of them.

You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.

Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!

Though very poor, may still be very blest.

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!

Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.

Mohammedans say there is only one God and only one prophet of God, that is Muhammad. Then God seems to be very poor - just ONE prophet?

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment.

At the moment, we don't deserve international cricket in our country. The security situation is poor here.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

Money is a poor indicator of success.

Poor eating habits developed at an early age lead to a lifetime of real health consequences.

Generally speaking, I tend to think that whether a philosopher's views are true is a poor test of their quality. What matter are the arguments they give, and the insights those arguments inspire.

If you have become entangled in sin from poor choices, please decide to come back now. You know how to begin. Do it now. We love you. We need you. God will help you.

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

When the poor farmer of India is unable to buy a gallon of gasoline to run his simple water pump because the world's demand has priced him out of the market, who is to blame?

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.