Quotes About Poverty

Believers who are poor have something to boast about, for God has honored them. —James 1:9

Whoever says youth is the best time in your life has cash in hand and can't remember being poor.

It means using such means as civil disobedience, outspoken criticism, protest, pacifism, voluntary poverty and even gentle violence if it comes to a matter of restraining some impetuous redneck.

I love to roam around and I like tough self-discipline, I don't mind hard work and being poor never bothered me. I guess that's what makes it possible to carry on like I do. Being free doesn't mean evading necessity, it means outsmarting it.

if a pauper were to leap from the parapet of this bridge each time we draw breath, we should live forever, because the city breeds and breaks men faster than we respire.

She possessed the hopeful, hopeless courage of the poor, which is perhaps the most appealing of all human qualities

I have traveled far, and I have observed that poor people usually have more wit and more virtue than rich ones. He smiled at that. You are kind. But our people have so much wit and virtue now that they may die.

If you are poor your very brother hates you And all your friends avoid you, sad to say.

Yet from the wise take this for common sense That to the poor all times are out of joint Therefore beware of reaching such a point.

la honradez y la buena vida siempre andan disociados, cuando se trata de gente pobre.

Aunque pueda parecer dificil de soportar, la pobreza es una clase de riqueza que nadie tratará de quitarte.

He who covets is a poor wretch, because he longs for what he can not have. But he who has naught, and covets naught, is rich, although you may think him but a lowly knave.

Woyzeck Us poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.

The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

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.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live, you would have to live well.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

It is the people who hate poverty, not those who sympathize with it, who will put an end to it.

A mind-set of prosperity debt is really a poverty mentality in disguise.