Quotes About Poverty

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe.

The satisfaction to Christian in withholding compassion from Caro had sprung directly from her need, her poverty.

Folks say he's up to his neck in debts. He doesn't even own the hair on his head.

Hello." "Hello yourself. Where you from?" "From hunger!

A goose is always hungry, just like—and no comparison meant—a poor man's children. A poor man's children eat anything you give them with gusto. And they're never full. I know it from experience.

They say that a pauper has a bottomless stomach. That's true as the Bible. You ought to take a look at Genesi's children. May God spare me! But I'm not talking ill of anyone, God forbid. And I can't stand backbiting either.

Poor people were dying of cold, they were swelling up with hunger. The children were falling like flies. But it wasn't so terrible, because only the poor were dying. May God not punish me.

She said, I wish I had been born poor. (I wish I'd been born an Indian - Robert Kennedy.) The ideal would have been to be born poor and black. But the counterculture was full of people in the grip of the same fantasy, with some - from street fighters to rock stars to flower children - even starting to believe they were black.

she had learned that the world is like a tavern - where he who has naught more to spend from is cast out at the door.

Her granny used to say, We've always been poor as Job's turkey and most likely always will be.

Often they can help to entrench poverty by encouraging people in remote communities empty of employment to do little but drink, fester and wait for the next handout from their relative abroad.

On the contrary, shared destitution makes the conjugal link reciprocal.

a abundância de lazer nos empobrece.

A popular Spanish song says in words of marvelous truth: "If anyone wants to make himself invisible, there is no surer way than to become poor." Love sees what is invisible.

Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.

He had learned how to assemble Jewish texts, Greek philosophy, and Middle-Western evangelistic anecdotes into a sermon. And he had learned that poverty was blessed, but that bankers make the best deacons.

The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better classes to amuse ourselves by investigating them and uplifting them and at dinners telling how charitable we are. The poor don't like it much. They have no gratitude. They would rather be uplifters themselves. But if they are taken firmly in hand they can be kept reasonably dependent and interesting for years.

There will never be a state of society anything like perfect! There never will be a time when there won't be a large proportion of people who feel poor no matter how much they have, and envy their neighbors who know how to wear cheap clothes showily, and envy neighbors who can dance or make love or digest better.

All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, disillusion.

7 per cent of all the families in the country earned $500 a year or less—remember, those weren't the unemployed, on relief; those were the guys that had the honor of still doing honest labor.

Chiapas, he says, is 'a cemetary with no crosses, where people die without even getting a prayer.

During that time, in between train rides, they sleep in trees or by the tracks, they drink from puddles, they beg for food.

They keep us so hungry that we can't do anything but worry about where our next meal is coming from. They keep us hungry for so long that we are grateful for whatever little food we get.