POVERTY QUOTES
quotations about poverty
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Poverty keeps the vision pure.
ROBERT LEIGHTON, "Let Us Rejoice That We Are Poor"
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is profoundly inconvenient.
SYDNEY SMITH, His Wit and Wisdom
A hungry man is not a free man.
ADLAI STEVENSON, speech, Sept. 6, 1952
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.
Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.
Poverty is very good in poems ... in maxims and in sermons, but it is very bad in practical life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
With poverty everything becomes frightful.
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.
It is not poverty so much as pretence, that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse.
WASHINGTON IRVING, "The Wife," The Sketch Book
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
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
WILLIAM COBBETT, Political Register, Dec. 22, 1832
What keeps some persons poor? and what has made some others rich? The true answers to these queries would often make the poor man more proud of his poverty, than the rich man is of his wealth, and the rich man more justly ashamed of his wealth, than the poor man unjustly now is, of his poverty.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
The fact is that this generation -- yours, my generation ... we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
J. K. ROWLING, speech, Jun. 5, 2008
Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.
BARACK OBAMA, The Audacity of Hope
Small leisure have the poor for grief.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, "The Witch's Daughter"
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
If the poor man's earthly lot is hard, it makes more welcome the suggestions of heaven.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
- Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel.
- You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.
BOB DYLAN, "Broke Down Engine"
The two poorest men in the world are buckled together at the opposite sides of the circle. The man who has so much money that he does not know what to do with it and the man who has no money at all touch each other, as you will find; and one is about as poor as the other.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
- 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"
Poverty is to happiness what appetite is to food--poverty enables us to enjoy the simplest pleasures; appetite, the simplest fare.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke
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
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.
OCTAVE MIRBEAU, The Diary of a Chambermaid
For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.
CORMAC MCCARTHY, Cities of the Plain
Come away; poverty's catching.
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
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