POVERTY QUOTES II

quotations about poverty

Poverty quote

Poverty is no sin, but it is a branch of roguery.

PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA

attributed, Day's Collacon


Poverty is never by the grace of God in the estimation of a New-Englander. It comes to him by post from the other direction.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

CHARLES DARWIN

The Voyage of the Beagle

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He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.

BIBLE

Proverbs 14:31

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The very poor are materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

EDWARD ABBEY

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

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Let us rejoice that we are poor,
And have no gold to keep:
We do not need to bar the door
Ere we can go to sleep.

ROBERT LEIGHTON

"Let Us Rejoice That We Are Poor"


Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

JANE AUSTEN

Northanger Abbey

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You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

STEPHEN LEACOCK

Last Leaves

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In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

ALAN WATTS

What Is Zen?

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In truth, poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

WALTER BAGEHOT

The Waverley Novels

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In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ

A Theology of Liberation


If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

FRANK MCCOURT

Angela's Ashes

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There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

MOTHER TERESA

A Simple Path

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The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

DIOGENES OF SINOPE

Stobaeus


You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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I hate those people who love to tell you
Money is the root of all that kills
They have never been poor
They have never had the joy of a welfare Christmas

EVERCLEAR

"I Will Buy You a New Life"


Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

WILLIAM COBBETT

Political Register, December 22, 1832

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It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

GEORGE ORWELL

1984

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Boredom is the keynote of poverty -- of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -- for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

MOSS HART

Act One

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