Quotes About Poor

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.

A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.

Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

Let us buy atleast one product of Khadi fabric and help light a lamp of Diwali in the homes of the poor.

That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things, To have no home in the present. And these are wishes: gentle dialogues Of the poor hours with eternity.

Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home

I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole.

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.