Top 1200 Poor Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat, robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

In real life I'm a poor dressmaker and a terrible cook, anything in fact but the perfect wife.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

People make mistakes and poor decisions in life and sometimes deserve second chances.

It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has worked life out and is handing things out to the poor people who might not have life worked out.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.

If you want to help the poor, don't be poor

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor.

Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at least in public. Nobody wants the stigma of being thought poor.

Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

It was a poor decision on my end to definitely disrespect the game. Poor decision of mine to misrepresent the Bucks, myself, my family, obviously my teammates.

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

When a family is poor, everyone is poor, and there is huge solidarity. People will take a bullet for you. But when one makes it, it is like you owe everyone.

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

Poor man. Poor mankind.

In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.

The poor are only they who feel poor.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

I've worked with and talked to poor people my entire life, being in the pawn shop business.

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

My greatest struggle is to coexist while watching the people I love choose less than life-supporting paths via drugs, alcohol, or poor lifestyle decisions. There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of the poor. And yet, I find that when Christians talked about values in this last election that was not on the agenda, that was not a concern. If you were to get the voter guide of the Christian Coalition, that does not rate. They talk more about tax cuts for people who are wealthy than they do about helping poor people who are in desperate straits.

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.

Rich people believe 'I create my life.' Poor people believe 'Life happens to me.'

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.

Today, if you were raised poor, you're just as likely to stay poor as you were 50 years ago.

Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.

When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.