Poor Quotes

But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

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

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

I am a poor hater.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

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.