The Poor Quotes

What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

It is of no concern to me if one is rich or poor, healthy or sick, at some time or another life will be pretty difficult for everyone. That is one of the reasons why my figures do not smile.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

If we don't progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

He that best understands the world, least likes it

The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward section - like me - has been nominated as a Prime Ministerial candidate.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

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?

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin?

Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man's attitude. Ask HOW to afford it.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.

We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.

When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.

Men and Melons are hard to know.

Wherever there are sinners, the weak, the sorrowful, the poor in the world, that is where God goes.

Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me. . . .

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism.

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.