Quotes About Poor

But I have said it, and will say it again. I, poor, penniless, plain simple fool that I am, have been ass enough to love you, Lady Laura Standish; and I brought you up here to-day to ask you to share with me—my nothingness. And this I have done on soil that is to be all your own. Tell me that you regard me as a conceited fool,—as a bewildered idiot.

For a poor man I think that it is, in this country. A man of fortune may be independent; and because he has the power of independence those who are higher than he will not expect him to be subservient. A man who takes to parliamentary office for a living may live by it, but he will have but a dog's life of it.

Democracy, he explains, is the government not of the many but of the poor; oligarchy a government not of the few but of the rich.

In an oligarchy it is necessary to take great care of the poor, and allot them public employments which are gainful; and, if any of the rich insult them, to let their punishment be severer than if they insulted one of their own rank;

My mother spoke about being a widow with two sons, one swimming in chicken fat and the other the poor little fellow sitting next to her.

Once upon a time there lived an old woman, called Janet Gellatley, who was suspected to be a witch, on the infallible grounds that she was very old, very ugly, very poor, and had two sons, one of whom was a poet, and the other a fool, which visitation, all the neighbourhood agreed, had come upon her for the sin of witchcraft.

Many bad men are rich, many good men are poor; but we shall not exchange wealth for honour, for money flits from man to man but honour abides forever.

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

Life… For some it is battle for others its dance...For rich it is party for poor it is chance!

Listen to the insults being flung around in the political controversies of the present day—the thieving rich, the shiftless poor, and the rest of it—and notice how many of them amount to claims that wealth that ought to belong to one group of people is being unfairly held by another.

If we go to church or share our faith or read our Bibles or serve the poor out of a sense of mere duty or in order to achieve our own righteousness, then we lose the satisfaction God intended for us to experience when we willingly offer ourselves to His Glory. This is a tragedy of tremendous proportion and steals from the joy of our salvation.

The highest percentages of death by abortion were recorded among minorities and the poor, who, not coincidentally, live in areas with the highest numbers of abortion clinics, placed in those locations by persons with an agenda.

The so-called "social gospel" lays stress upon this life, not on the next. In many quarters it is now regarded as very old-fashioned and passe' to urge people to prepare to die. Social security, better housing, relief for tenant farmers, better living conditions for the poor and the care of underprivileged children—these have occupied so much of the teaching and preaching of these modern days, that preachers have left hungry-hearted people ignorant about Heaven.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

You who are suffering with poor health, there is a remedy for you. If thou clothe the naked and bring the poor that are cast out to thy house and deal thy bread to the hungry, "then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily." Doing good is an excellent remedy for disease.

good missionaries practised these qualities in their way of life, by redeeming prisoners of war and slaves, for example, and giving alms to the poor.

Anyone/any leader who fails to secure justice for the poor and as well fails to uphold the cause of the needy is never a true love/leader. For, a true love/leader ought to be securing justice for the poor and he or she ought to be upholding the cause of the needy around him/her and even those afar off.

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

How can the people in power not understand that a sick schizophrenic doesn't have the tools to cope with such a confusing world? How can we be so rich and so idiotically poor all at once?" "I know," Eldora says again.

the Pastoureaux spread the fear of insurrection that freezes the blood of the privileged in any era when the mob appears. Excommunicated by Pope John XXII, they were finally suppressed when he forbade anyone to provision them on pain of death and sanctioned the use of force against them. That was sufficient, and the Pastoureaux ended like every outbreak of the poor sooner or later in the Middle Ages, with corpses hanging from the trees.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political history - or, for that matter, distant political history.

I usually stay out of politics, but people have asked me whether the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), if passed by the Senate, will affect me personally. I'm about music, not politics, but the fact is this one has me freaked out for poor and disabled people.