Quotes About Poverty

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

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.

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

... frugality makes a poor man rich.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.

Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Watching snowing would be much greater if there were no homeless people! Man can never be fully happy and comfortable till all men become happy and comfortable!

Let the poor man mind his tongue

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.