Poor People Quotes

Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world's poor people depend.

Love is a concept invented by poor people.

We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

I don't understand how poor people think.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.

Those of us in the west have figured out a lot of ways to damage the lives of poor people in this country and around the world over the years.

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace

Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

[Donald Trump] said it's against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that's pushing all of them in terms of policy.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

No matter who you are, if you have a $30 operating loss, you can carry it forward to the next year. And poor people do take advantage of that, also.

It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate our reform efforts in order to really to achieve reforms, one by one.

I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

People who are poor, they suffer a lot. And people drink a lot and people take a lot of downers and there's a lot of unemployment.

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.