Poor Quotes

Don't think about any poor man, just think he deserves it.

~ Shuhab

In a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

~ Hemmingway

Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such things, but when they argued the glitter of all he could not give her had sometimes been flung back hard in his face...

~ Robert Galbraith

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

We call ourselves poor, that's why we're poor. When we will start calling ourselves rich then we will become rich, even it won't look like that. Self trust is freedom.

~ Arefin Bashar Arif

Within a neoliberal discourse there is also an assumption that all social groups will ultimately benefit from the effects of corporate profit, regardless of the fact that in increases the wealth of the already wealthy. Yet, in reality, neoliberal agendas aim to reduce labour costs, decrease public expenditure and make work more flexible...For poor families and the working poor, this means that they are more likely to be exploited as their incomes remain low, and their ability to access services is increasingly compromised.

~ Kerry H Robinson

Most people which died poor or rich or other types of people knew something they written it and in the near future when they revive they will somehow reach to this knowledge and will start looking from this view...

~ Deyth Banger

My behavior last night was poor.Poor? Agatha coughed. You pushed me through a window!

~ Soman Chainani

They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no money.

~ Terry Pratchett

So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets...

~ Oscar Wilde

What do you see from your window? Mostly the things you have been taught to you! And so your view is poor and so you too! To be rich, let the things which have not been taught to you reach you too!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country.

~ Steven Magee

Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best way to become poor is to give nothing.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

~ V.c. Andrews

There is today a division of labor between the elite and the masses. In medieval Europe aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well-heeled go into debt buying cars and televisions they don't really need.

~ Yuval Noah Harari

As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one’s self to their number.

~ Ken Macleod

A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.

~ Zanjabil

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them.

~ Arundhati Roy

When the middle classes get passionate about politics, they're arguing about their treats—their tax breaks and their investments. When the poor get passionate about politics, they're fighting for their lives. Politics will always mean more to the poor. Always. That's why we strike and march, and despair when our young say they won't vote. That's why the poor are seen as more vital, more animalistic. No classical music for us—no walking around National Trust properties or buying reclaimed flooring. We don't have nostalgia. We don't do yesterday. We can't bear it. We don't want to be reminded of our past, because it was awful: dying in means, and slums, without literacy, or the vote. Without dignity. It was all so desperate then. That's why the present and the future is for the poor—that's the place in time for us: surviving now, hoping for better later. We live now—for our instant, hot, fast treats, to pep us up: sugar, a cigarette, a new fast song on the radio. You must never, never forget when you talk to someone poor, that it takes ten times the effort to get anywhere from a bad post code. It's a miracle when someone from a bad post code gets anywhere, son. A miracle they do anything at all.

~ Caitlin Moran

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

~ Debasish Mridha

Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.

~ Imran Khan

The poor are very well off, at least the agricultural poor, very well off indeed. Their incomes are certain, that is a great point, and they have no cares, no anxieties; they always have a resource, they always have the House. People without cares do not require as much food as those whose life entails anxieties. See how long they live!

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer.

~ Santosh Kalwar

We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.

~ Vishwas Chavan

The excluded when on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true leper are only the illustration ordained by god to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying “lepers” we would understand “outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities” but we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign. Excluded as they were from the flock, all of them were ready to hear, or to produce, every sermon that, harking back to the words of Christ, would condemn the behaviour of the dogs and shepherds and would promise their punishment one day. The powerful have always realised this. The recovery of the outcasts demanded a reduction of the privileges of the powerful, so the excluded who became aware of their exclusion had to be branded as heretics, whatever their doctrine. This is the illusion of heresy. Everyone is heretical, everyone is orthodox. The faith a movement proclaims doesn’t count: what counts is the hope it offers.

~ Umberto Eco

The doorbells of Heaven were designed for the prayers of the poor.

~ Felix Wantang

Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Last breath is rare, therefore expensive. However, we prefer to stay poor ... (Dernier soupir est rare, donc cher. - Pourtant, on préfère rester pauvre...)

~ Charles De Leusse

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

~ Pablo Picasso

No, its the poor I tell you, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich knows nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds... Chap. 1, p. 12

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Thoughtout life, we all live our lives assuming two roles, the role of a slave and the role of a master. It only depend on an individual which role he assumes first

~ Nathanael Kanyinga

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter

~ Victor Hugo

It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.

~ John Connolly

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you’d be miserable poor.

~ Glen Duncan

He buys Playboy magazines and looks through them once, then gives them to me. That’s what it’s like to be rich.Here’s what it’s like to be poor. Your wife leaves you because you can’t find a job because there aren’t any jobs to find. You empty the jar of pennies on the mantel to buy cigarettes. You hate to answer the phone; it can’t possibly be good news. When your friends invite you out, you don’t go. After a while, they stop inviting. You owe them money, and sometimes they ask for it. You tell them you’ll see what you can scrape up.Which is this: nothing.

~ Tom Franklin

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.

~ Sebastian Japrisot

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie