Quotes About Destitution

saw listless-looking people working in barren gardens or digging clams on the fishy-smelling beach below, and groups of dirty, simian-visaged children playing around weed-grown doorsteps. Somehow

At one time, this might have been a nice area, but now the neighborhood looked like a man who'd lost his job and stopped bathing.

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

As long as these ideas prevail, it is clear that the responsibility of government is enormous. Good fortune and bad fortune, wealth and destitution, equality and inequality, virtue and vice – all then depend upon political administration.

In walking, far from any vehicle or machine, from any mediation, I am replaying the earthly human condition, embodying once again man's inborn, essential destitution. That is why humility is not humiliating: it just makes vain pretensions fall away, and thus nudges us towards authenticity.

Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.

He didn't forget his lunch, he didn't have any. He had none today nor would he have any tomorrow or the next day. He had probably never seen three quarters together at the same time in his life.

Life punishes the needy; admit you can't live without something and it's taken away.

But just a minute, Mr. Poor Man; consider whether you can, in fact, enter. What if you're poor, and also happen to be greedy? What if you're sunk in destitution, and at the same time on fire with avarice? So if that's what you're like, whoever you are that are poor, it's not because you haven't wanted to be rich, but because you haven't been able to. So God doesn't inspect your means, but he observes your will.

unsäglich arm, weil sie nichts geben konnte und nur empfing, mit

Kisumu has the distinction of being the poorest city in Kenya. Almost half the people live on fifty cents a day or less.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

The luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

But of that instant I knew my wife was right, knew that I had made a grave mistake. In that moment I sensed the leech that Anaïs had tried to get rid of. I saw the spoiled child, the man who had never done an honest stroke of work in his life, the destitute individual who was too proud to beg openly but was not above milking a friend dry. I knew it all, felt it all, and already foresaw the end.

I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Life on the streets is short. People look at you in disgust, even the ones who give you alms, but this is nothing compared to the revulsion you feel for yourself. It's like being trapped in a walking corpse, a corpse that's hungry, stinks, and refuses to die.

Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.