Quotes About Poverty

When these impoverished, indebted folk asked him what they should do, he told them to share what little they had with those who were even worse off—an ethic that would become central to Jesus's movement: "Whoever has two shirts must share with him who has none, and whoever has food must do the same."12

we sometimes fail to recognize the signs of poverty, loneliness, grief, fear, and desolation in our own city, our own village, or our own family.

Money, or the lack of it, haunted him. Oh, not because he had so little. He was, in fact, very wealthy. It was the beggarliness of his companion that caused him the most pain.

Taken food from a child.

The value of money is a scam perpetuated by those who have it over those who don't.

it was better to be guilty and rich than innocent and poor.

To make the society [which of course consists of non-workers] happy and people easier under the meanest circumstances, it is requisite that great numbers of them should be ignorant as well as poor; knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our desires, and the fewer things a man wishes for, the more easily his necessities may be supplied. [3] What Mandeville

How lame an anti-climax! If the working-class has remained "poor," only "less poor" in proportion as it produces for the wealthy class "an intoxicating augmentation of wealth and power," then it has remained relatively just as poor.

Le travailleur tombe dans le paupérisme, et le paupérisme s'accroît plus rapidement encore que la population et la richesse

they see in poverty nothing but poverty, without seeing in it the revolutionary, subversive side, which will overthrow the old society.

Es incapaz de gobernar, porque es incapaz de garantizar a sus esclavos la existencia ni aun dentro de su esclavitud, porque se ve forzada a dejarlos llegar hasta una situación de desamparo en que no tiene más remedio que mantenerles, cuando son ellos quienes debieran mantenerla a ella.

He wondered what a visitor from the past would make of it. It used to be the poor who were thin and the rich who were fat, now it seemed to be the other way round.

Tracy thought she must be missing something, it felt like the same world as ever to her. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, kids everywhere falling through the cracks. The Victorians would have recognized it. People just watched a lot more TV and found celebrities interesting, that was all that was different.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.