Quotes about poor

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

For their holidays: the rich go see the world the poor go see their parents.

Surgeo Bell -

Don't be so impatient in finding love take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you'll be busy reading the back of the book.

Dillon Burroughs - Thirst No More: A One-Year Devotional Journey

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor He lived among them.

Dillon Burroughs - Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

Our God is known for His compassion for the needy let us be known for it as well.

M.F. Moonzajer -

You will never be able to live with two kinds of people greedy rich and arrogant poor.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Wealth is relative. Some people aren’t really rich they just have poor neighbors.

Natalya Vorobyova -

I'm too hot to handle poor bitch needs to be treated for burns!

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Poor people do not go on holiday they go home.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Maybe we are the wealthiest people around the world but we haven’t found wealth on the road.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

The rich spend their life living the poor spend their life making a living.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world when our stomachs are full of delicious food the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it.

Henry Walter Bates -

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

Francis Bacon -

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Benjamin Franklin -

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

James E. Faust -

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

Phaedrus -

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Henry Lawson -

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

Ben Affleck -

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

Our people are good people our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

Adam Smith -

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Ian Smith -

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Harold H. Greene -

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

Desmond Tutu -

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.

Jawaharlal Nehru -

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Michael Harrington -

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

Anthony T. Hincks -

I may be very poor, but I'm rich in so many other ways.

Aleister Crowley - Moonchild

Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by concentrating all his abilities on the amassing of wealth?'Exactly; that is the real distinction between the artist and the bourgeois, or, if you prefer it, between the gentleman and the cad. Money, and the things money can buy, have no value, for there is

Jean-Jacques Rousseau -

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Nino Varsimashvili -

Life… For some it is battle for others its dance...For rich it is party for poor it is chance!

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse-Five

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by

Sunday Adelaja -

What will support you consists in your gift, so until you find yourself you will be poor

Sunday Adelaja -

Your gift is what you were created to be

Sunday Adelaja -

Your wealth is in your talent and that is why you will be poor until you find yourself

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the

Robin Sacredfire -

Planet Earth has rules that can’t be broken, no matter how rich or poor you are. You either have a nine to five job, you’re an artist constantly producing art, you’re a businessman, or you stay home cleaning and taking care of children. And no matter if you’re a man or a woman, the same rule applies to you. You break it, and life breaks you.

Jorge Ramos -

Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon you, when they kill someone and no one gets indicted, and when only a few get rich, of course you dream more. It's no coincidence that magic realism happens in Latin America, because for us dreams and aspirations are part of life.

J Jena -

Poor people are those who does not have Dreams rather does not Money...

Jagabandhu Jena -

Poor people are those who do not have Dreams rather do not have Money…

John F. Kennedy -

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

F. Scott Fitzgerald - and Other Stories

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss.'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...

Glen Cook - Water Sleeps

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

Sunday Adelaja - spending time or investing time?

If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product.

Sunday Adelaja -

Time management is the major difference between the rich and poor

Steven Magee -

At the same time that a massive deployment of biologically harmful radio frequency (RF) radiation devices across the mass population has occurred, we see the reduction of health care for the poor, sick and elderly.

Viet Thanh Nguyen -

No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their own soldiers.

Kate Horsley - The Changeling

the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.

Zain Baloch -

Rich people were not rich if there were no poor.

Anthony T. Hincks -

Only poor people are corrupt. If you don't believe me, just go and ask a rich person.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Poor people! No territory invasion can broaden their narrow minds.

Jack D. Forbes - Exploitation and Terrorism

I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.

Audre Lorde -

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

Warren Buffett -

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.

Caitlin Moran - How to Build a Girl

There's one big difference between the poor and the rich,' Kite says, taking a drag from his cigarette. We are in a pub, at lunch-time. John Kite is always, unless stated otherwise, smoking a fag, in a pub, at lunch-time.'The rich aren't evil, as so many of my brothers would tell you. I've known rich people -- I have played on their yachts -- and they are not unkind, or malign, and they do not hate the poor, as many would tell you. And they are not stupid -- or at least, not any more than the po

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Lord I thank you for the timely provisions

T.K. Kiser - The Firebrand Legacy

That’s the beauty of magic. You can get it no matter how rich or poor you are.

Dorothy Day -

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

Munia Khan -

Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

The Lord is concerned about the poor receiving justice and that they are not neglected or cheated.

Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance

As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.

Deyth Banger -

You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!

Vineet Raj Kapoor -

Look Below and You'll feel Rich,Look Above and You'll feel Poor

Lailah Gifty Akita -

PhD made me poorer, without money, but richer in thoughts.

Stevie Smith - Selected Poems

It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that grows in secretThat bears fruit in secretThat ripened falls to the ground in secretAnd manures the parent treeOh the wicked tree of hatred and the secretThe sap rising and the tears falling.

M.F. Moonzajer -

The death of American soldiers is as painful as the death of civilians in Afghanistan, and what makes our world a better place is not pouring more guns and weapons in this country, but educating the uneducated population. Since, those guns can ended up in the hands of dangerous group that can take the lives of many poor people in Afghanistan and everywhere else.

M.F. Moonzajer - HATRED AND MADNESS

Never kill yourself because you are too poor to feed your children or your family. You are a part of this world, and the country you live on it. It is your right to be happy, educated and with your children and family. You must fight for your rights, kill for your rights but never die for them.

Yuval Noah Harari - קיצור תולדות האנושות

The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the rich is ‘Invest!’ The supreme commandment of the rest of us is ‘Buy!’ The capitalist–consumerist ethic is revolutionary in another respect. Most previous ethical systems presented people with a pretty tough deal. They were promised paradise, but only if they cultivated compassion and tolerance, overcame craving and anger, and restrained their selfish interests. This

Vineet Raj Kapoor -

Do not Speak for Anyone.Just let them know their Right to Speak.

Stephen Colbert -

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind.

Anthony Liccione -

We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one.

Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land

Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light.

Sherman Alexie - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.

H.G. Wells - Vols. I and II

Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air. This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who cannot distinguish the core of the story from the ornamental and unwise additions of the unintelligently devout.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe - The Reason

Lack teaches you the importance of what you are lacking.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man’s dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass.

Randy S. Woodley -

A society concerned with shalom will care for the most marginalized among them. God has a special concern for the poor and needy, because how we treat them reveals our hearts, regardless of the rhetoric we employ to make ourselves sound just.

Santosh Kalwar -

The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.

Paul Theroux - The Kingdom by the Sea

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

Anthony Liccione -

These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann -

An honorable man has a heart for the poor and vulnerable in our society.

César Chávez -

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.

George Bernard Shaw -

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Louisa May Alcott -

Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , for rich people may grow poor, you know, and poor people have to work.... so when I saw how happy and independent those young ladies were, I wanted to have a trade, and then it wouldn't matter about money, though I like to have it well enough.

Rachel Corrie -

By Rachel Corrie, aged 10 — 1990I’m here for other children.I’m here because I care.I’m here because children everywhere are suffering and because forty thousand people die each day from hunger.I’m here because those people are mostly children.We have got to understand that the poor are all around us and we are ignoring them.We have got to understand that these deaths are preventable.We have got to understand that people in third world countries think and care and smile and cry just like us.We h

Ron Rash - Serena

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

Anthony Liccione -

Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.

Karan Mahajan - The Association of Small Bombs

To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking.

Anton Szandor LaVey - The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

As the war progresses, and as population increases to an even more intolerable level stretching resources to impossible lengths, the strong will begin fighting for their very survival. That’s what we’re seeing right now. Society will become more and more stratified into the people who aren’t buying the bullshit in society and those who blindly follow where they are led. Satanists, freethinkers, are a burgeoning minority cause. We have an illness that needs to be recognized just like alcoholism,

Allan Wolf - The Watch That Ends the Night

Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poorso the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.

Harper Lee -

...baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own.

Lady Diana - The Mirage of Love

You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable.

Anthony Liccione -

People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.

Gary Hopkins -

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

Munia Khan -

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.