Poor Quotes - page 4

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. (Joseph Stalin)
A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business.
Henry Ford
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.
Jean-Paul Sartre
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Honoré de Balzac
The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.
Basil of Caesarea
If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value-conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity can open up.
C.K. Prahalad
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
Emily Greene Balch
No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
Loretta Young
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
William Graham Sumner
So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
David Dinkins
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure. (Barbara Jordan)
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
Fidel Castro
It is a damned poor mind indeed that can't think of at least two ways of spelling any word.
Andrew Jackson
...all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.
Paulo Coelho
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
W. Somerset Maugham
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
Thomas Carlyle
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.[16].
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Herein lies the tragedy of the age not that men are poor all men know something of poverty not that men are wicked who is good Not that men are ignorant what is truth Nay, but that men know so little of men. (W. E. B. Du Bois)
My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
Vivienne Westwood
That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.
Jack Kerouac
Everything belongs to me because I am poor.
Jack Kerouac
The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.
Norman Mailer