Poor Quotes
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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.
Ornette Coleman -
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
Rajneesh
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare -
Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.
Walter de La Mare -
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
Finley Peter Dunne -
I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.
Nargis Fakhri -
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
Octave Mirbeau -
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.
Walter Kirn -
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
Oscar Wilde -
Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.
Richard John Neuhaus -
This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.
Wagner Moura
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
William Cobbett -
I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
Saint Patrick -
We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
Mamata Banerjee -
There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
Walker Stapleton -
How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.
Albert Einstein
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
Abraham Kuyper -
I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
Barney Frank -
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson