Poor Quotes

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.

I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.

Rich is he who thinks he is rich and poor is he who thinks he is poor.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.

Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.

Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed.

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs.

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.

And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.

A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.

The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world.

What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb. If I were a Wise Man I would do my part. Yet what can I give Him? I give Him my heart.

What else is there for the rich to do, If not to relieve the poor of their misery?

When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

Proper preparation prevents poor performance.