Quotes About Poor

The north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.

Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

I saw what he was afraid of doing and I had sympathy, for however hard we fought, we must be beaten by empty bellies. The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.

Ohio, lawmakers have taken money from TANF, the welfare program that supports poor families, and given it to so-called crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) whose mission is to discourage pregnant women from having abortions. (That's right: Embryos and fetuses deserve government support, not the actual, living children they may become.)

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people's washing.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

The naked, poor, and mangled Peace,Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births.

O world! world! world! thus is the poor agent despised.

But yesterday the word of Caesar mightHave stood against the world; now lies he there,And none so poor to do him reverence.

William Shakespeare

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

The Church must be free to be poor in order to minister among the poor.

By this time poor little Alfie was in great distress. The pain of having his tooth pulled out was a

Present-day science, conventional medicine, and the mindset of 'better living through chemistry' have delivered their results, and they are less an excellent. Essentially, due to poor results, these methods no longer reign supreme.

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the not so very long run.

The politics of redistribution is being replaced by the politics of recognition. How much fun will it be to recognize how poor and atomized we all become!

We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift.

From doing to listening in the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts. . . . The promise of Jesus is to help us discover that the poor are a source of life and not just objects of our charity.