Poor Quotes

• Nothing, indeed, is more symptomatic of our modern lack of logic than our consciousness of the futility of mere material affluence in itself, and at the same time our pathetic belief that the salvation of the “poor” is to lift them into affluence!

  

  Rumi
  • Belief
  • Consciousness
  • Salvation

• Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Remember
  • Memories
  • Ghost

• No one likes to be treated like people in minority communities. What it's saying is that because you're poor, because you live in a neighborhood that deals with oppressed conditions, you deserve to be treated like a criminal. In our Constitution it says you have the right to live without illegal search and seizure.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Community
  • Constitution

• Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

  

  Anna Brownell Jameson
  • Courage
  • Poor
  • Disarm

• The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand on it, "No". Mrs Jeffries stared down at him. "What do you mean...no?" Jared and Mrs.Jeffries stared back at each other,neither breaking eye contact in a perfect deadlock. Then Jared smiled at her. "I mean", he said with conviction, "it's mine." "It's what?" Jared stood up, pocketing the lipstick. "I know", he responded. "Everyone tells me i'm more of a summer". Mrs.Jeffries continued to stare. Jared continued to speak. "I'm going to go now. Me... and my lipstick.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Perfect
  • Mean
  • Speak

• Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Possession

• If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Poor
  • Chips
  • Caviar

• They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

  

  John Gardner
  • Evil
  • Stupid
  • Enjoy

• It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

  

  Nursultan Nazarbayev
  • Important
  • Country
  • War

• You can't help the poor by being one of them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Help
  • Being
  • Poor

• Oppression makes a poor country.

  

  William Penn
  • Country
  • Poor
  • Oppression

• My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Mom

• If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Nature
  • Rich
  • According

• We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Moments
  • Sick
  • Dying

• I wish I had a dollar for every pro-choicer who told me that abortion has to be accessible for poor women... as if being poor makes you an unfit mother.

  

  Abby Johnson
  • Mother
  • Poor
  • Unfit

• Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • People
  • Men
  • Opinion

• Good judgment is what you get from experience, which is what you have immediately after using poor judgement.

  

  Jim Horning
  • Poor
  • Judgment
  • Judgement

• Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Joy
  • Poverty
  • Poor

• To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Remembered
  • Contempt
  • Recompense

• When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Ambition
  • Ambitious

• I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Path
  • Dog
  • Painter

• The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

  

  William Cowper
  • Thinking
  • Rich
  • Weak

• 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.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Believe
  • Jesus
  • Appearance

• Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth. () How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?

  

  Avro Manhattan
  • Jesus
  • Rich
  • Catholicism

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