The Poor Quotes

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.

[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor.

I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

It's a poor thing to be sane!

Know how and how much to tip people who expect gratuities, even in the case of poor service.

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name

Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

Give and you shall receive, much more that you ever thought possible. Give and give again. People who give will never be poor!

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.

Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves.

Poor me, poor me, pour me another.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

You can never have too much money.

My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.

The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

So you say you love the poor? Name them.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.