Poor Quotes - page 9

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. (Howard Zinn)
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. View quote
William James
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style. View quote
Stella Gibbons
When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may the country boast of its constitution and its government. View quote
Thomas Paine
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which. View quote
Yip Harburg
You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong. View quote
Leonard Cohen
God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled... View quote
Leonard Cohen
The very idea that society should serve the poor, the sick, and the marginalized became a distinctively Christian concern. View quote
Bart D. Ehrman
... the Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity. (Muhammad Reza Pahlavi)
It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition. View quote
Jean Chrétien
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead. View quote
Daniel Tammet
I have nothing, owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor. View quote
François Rabelais
In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child. View quote
Maria Montessori
Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did not always come from the poor, but from men who had known no oppression and became the leaders of the poor. The Arab nation has never been as class-conscious as other nations. View quote
Saddam Hussein
Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions. View quote
George Sarton
My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands. View quote
Sergei Rachmaninoff
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. View quote
Willem de Kooning
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land. View quote
David Lloyd George
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers. (Jean-Baptiste Say)
A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples, throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
My poor fellow, why not carry a watch? View quote
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption. View quote
Thomas Malthus
To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface. View quote
Thomas Malthus