Poor Quotes

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.

As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the ‘New York Post’ has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

It’s not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It’s not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: ‘He believed in equality and he helped the poor.’

It’s a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

I didn’t have the easiest time growing up; it’s no secret. We were just poor.

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina‘s wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master’s name.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

I am a poor hater.

The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it’s not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories… Poor people didn’t decide to use ‘contract employees‘ because they cost less and don’t get any benefits.

Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

It doesn’t matter where you’re from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education or a college graduate. No matter your background, you can win.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

In ‘Saami,’ I take a poor dhobi’s son for admission to a private school. The principal refuses for various reasons and finally he points to the boy’s bare body. Immediately, I tear the furnishings off the office chair to convert them into clothes for the boy.

Instead of raising the minimum wage, let’s lower taxes for the working poor.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that’s exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I’m not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it’s not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child – one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there’s a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.

Over the years, as I lived in low-income housing, collected government assistance, and lived well under the poverty level as I put myself through college, the comments people made about poor people started to sting. The poor are dirty. Hoarders. Their houses are a mess. Their kids are wild, untamed, and feral-looking.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

According to our Christian ethics, we’re supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

I made so many jokes about poor Russell Crowe, he once knocked on my dressing room door, and told me he wanted to go out on this chat show we were on to laugh with me. Now he’s ruined it. I can’t make another joke about him.

Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It’s a script error.

I don’t think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they’re black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That’s what we’re upset about.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.